On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:29:34AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-07-14, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > It's in an A tag: (I've munged some of the href's characters in this post)
> >
> > <td height=3D"60" colspan=3D"3" align=3D"center" valign=3D"middle=
> > "><font face=3D"Arial" color=3D"#666666" style=3D"font-size:10px"><a titl=
> > e=3D"View Email Online link" href=3D"http://example.media.xyz.com.au:80/t=
> > rack?t=3Dv&mid=3D45671&msgid=3D87652&did=3D87641&edid=3D26341&sn=3D374852=
> > 7545&[email protected]&[email protected]&uid=3D9=
> > 56897&rid=3D234564&erid=3D234564&fl=3D&mvid=3D&extra=3D&&&2000&eu=3D425&&=
> > &viewonline" style=3D"color: #666666">Click here if you cannot view this =
> > email properly</a></span><br />=20
>
> If the URL is embedded within an <A ...> tag, as this one is, then
> w3m will not display it. That is, in an HTML link written like
> this,
>
> <A href="http://foo.com";>bar</A>
>
> w3m will display "bar" but not "http://foo.com";.
Ah, thank you. (And for improving my understanding of html.)
> In your original post you said that the URL was rendered as "*".
> Did the "*" appear instead of "Click here if you cannot view this
> email properly" or was the "*" in front of "Click here ..."?
The latter. It displays like this:
*
Click here if you cannot view this email properly
> > > What happens if you open the attachment in the attachment menu?
> > > That will use w3m to display the message instead of just using w3m
> > > as a filter. Do you see the "*" as a link?
Wow. It opens the link in firefox.
(Do you know, I've never before considered opening the message body in
the attachment menu.)
> > It's not an attachment. The message is only text/html.
> > (Yes, I do dump 99% of them, just not this one. :)
>
> I guess I should have been more clear and written, "What happens if
> you open the attachment or the message in the attachment menu?" I
> expect w3m to highlight the link but not display the URL.
It automatically followed the link, opening it in firefox.
> If your w3m is configured to allow the use of an external browser,
> typing
>
> <Esc>M
>
> on the link will open the link in the external browser.
Seems like it shot right past any opportunity to do that.
Many thanks for helping me understand better what's happening between
mutt and w3m, to get to the browser.
I might just interpose a wrapper around w3m, taking your information to
modify the
> <A href="http://foo.com";>bar</A>
to
<A href="http://foo.com";> "http://foo.com"; bar</A>
Then I can copy-paste the displayed URL into an extant firefox instance,
instead of locking up mutt until a firefox instance, opened via the
attachment menu, is closed.
Erik
P.S. I have to go bush for a week in an hour, so apologies if you're
curious enough to probe further. My replies will necessarily be delayed.
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