I guess a solution used for browsing html attachments (discussed here some time ago; see attached perl script) may be adapted for running libreoffice. The main idea would be to make a copy of the file, send it to libreoffice and sleep a short time before returning to mutt, Regards, Luis
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:52:08AM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Hi > > 2012/6/22 steve <[email protected]>: > > Have you found a solution? > > Unfortunately, no! > > > -- > Marcelo Luiz de Laia -- o W. Luis Mochán, | tel:(52)(777)329-1734 /<(*) Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM | fax:(52)(777)317-5388 `>/ /\ Apdo. Postal 48-3, 62251 | (*)/\/ \ Cuernavaca, Morelos, México | [email protected] /\_/\__/ O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
#!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; # SYNOPSIS # mutt_browse file # # DESCRIPTION # Runs a browser on a copy of a file, and sleeps for a while # before deleting it. It solves the problem that mutt may delete # the file too fast. # EXAMPLE # To use a sensible browser to view HTML attachments from mutt, add the # following line to the .mailcap file. # # text/html; /path/to/mutt_browse %s # # AUTHOR # Luis Mochan <[email protected]> # Shamelessly adapted from mutt_netscape by # Gary A. Johnson <[email protected]> # # WARNING # This program has been tested in a Debian system # The temporal file is created in the /tmp directory # ############################ # Variables to be customized # # template filename for temporal file my $template="muttXXXXX"; # Path to desired browser. Under Debian sensible-browser defaults to # my prefered browser, but an explicit choice such as chrome, # iceweasel, etc. may be used here. my $browser="/usr/bin/sensible-browser"; # Delay to give time for browser to read file before it is destroyed my $delay=3; #in seconds # # End of customizations ############################ use File::Temp qw(tempfile); die <<"EOF" unless @ARGV==1; Usage $0 file to run a sensible-browser over copy of file EOF die "Can't read $ARGV[0]" unless -r $ARGV[0]; my ($fh, $fname) = tempfile($template, DIR=>"/tmp", SUFFIX=>".html", UNLINK=>1); open IN, "<", $ARGV[0]; while(<IN>){ print $fh $_; } close $fh; system $browser, $fname; sleep $delay;
