On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 01:12:30AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
In another thread it was said:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 10:23:22AM +0100, Mathias M. wrote:
... . Pretty much everybody sends out HTML mails.
So just put this in your mailcap:
text/html;w3m -dump %s;nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
and this in your .muttrc:
auto_view text/html
And voila!
I currently read html messages using a macro for F-key 5
macro index,attach <f5> <view-attachments>/html<enter>"|/usr/bin/lynx \
-stdin -dump 2> /dev/null | less \nq" 'read html message'
But I decided to try the auto_view approach. Turned out I already had
a complex entry for lynx in my mailcap so I used it:
text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -width=$COLUMNS -dont_wrap_pre -dump \
-force_html -localhost -assume_charset=%{charset} \
-display-charset=utf-8 %s;nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
Works well with one undesired aspect. lynx enumerates each URL
in the message and creates a "reference list" at the end. Like:
[1]Virginia Auto 976566294
[2]Contact
...
1.
http://click.e.progressive.com/u/?qs=eyJkZWtJZCI6IjU3ODQzM2I1LWM4ZjEtNGE1ZC05NjcxLTEwOGRjNjdiYTJiYiIsImRla1ZlcnNpb24iOjEsIml2IjoibWFsMDFmT2Q=
2.
http://click.e.progressive.com/?qs=eyJkZWtJZCI6Ijc1MjEwOGI2LWE5ODItNGE4Yy1iZWRhLTdhN2Y2YTA3MTQzNCIsImRla1ZlcnNpb24iO=
Using the macro When I move the mouse pointer onto the reference,
the entire multiline URL is selected (underlined) and a middle
button click opens a new page in firefox.
Using the auto_view approach only the first line of a multiline URL
is selected and of course that is incomplete.
I'm guessing this different behavior is due to the less pager used
in the F5 macro. But I would love to hear there is another way of
turning on the multiline selection.
BTW I mostly use Gnome Terminal in a MATE environment but see the
same behavior using other terminal emulators.
Thanks,
Jon
Seek and ye shall find. :)
Came across a terminal emulater "kitty" that basically does what I
want. Hover over an http url and click mouse button one and kitty
opens the url in my default program which happens to be firefox.
So I'll explore kitty some more.
Jon
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