Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt
On 20110421_173702, Alan McConnell wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:30:38AM -0500, green wrote: Alan McConnell wrote at 2011-04-21 09:34 -0500: I have looked at /etc/mailcap in my new squeeze, and also at the mailcap in my backup of my etc etc. They seem to be different files. I have greped new-tab in both and it isn't to be found No, you need to add it. And the file to edit is probably: ~/.mailcap Add a line like: text/html; iceweasel -new-tab '%s'; test=test -n $DISPLAY; nametemplate=%s.html If another text/html; entry exists, you may need to comment (#) it. Bingo! I didn't have a .mailcap in my home directory, I just created it populated with the line above. And now my mutt puts the stuff into a Tab just like I wanted. Mr Green is herewith added to my growing list of Geniuses! How did you ever know about this, Mr Green? is this documented anywhere, or did you intuit it? Maybe you are the mutt developer? You've FYI The developer of Mutt is, I believe, Michael Elkins. He is also a regular poster on the mutt-us...@mutt.org mailing list. My attitude towards Mutt and its setting up is conflicted. On the one hand, I have never made any serious progress on using any other MUA althougn I have had several bursts of serious effort. On the other hand, I find the documentation of Mutt difficult to follow. E.G. I find this little exchange of emails dificult to follow. Apparently you have gotten something working that previously you had been unable to configure. What exactly, I'm not sure, but I'm happy for you. For me, being puzzled by Mutt configuration is part of the human condition ;^) certainly added evidence to my claim, made in a different E-mail, that E-mail, the killer app, is by no means a piece of cake to set up correctly. Anyway, many thanks, and I'll pass this along to the mutt E-list. Greetings to all! Alan McConnell, in Silver Spring MD -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A. Whenever anyone says, theoretically, they really mean, not really. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110421213702.GA5956@alanmcc.localdomain -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110422152426.ga18...@big.lan.gnu
Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:19:54 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: Assembled Wisdom! I have been running mutt for a good many years from with my Debian Linux distribution. A couple of days ago I upgraded from Debian etch to Debian squeeze and got mutt 1.5.20. It has one behavior that I don't like and I hope that it can be changed: when I type 'v' within mutt I am given a choice of viewing the message within a browser window. My Firefox is almost always open, and previously mutt would display the message within a new Tab. Now a new Firefox Window is opened. I don't like that! Can I change that behaviour e.g. with a command in my .muttrc? The above is what I posted to the mutt E-list. I got one person who wrote, yeah, I'd like to know that too; but otherwise nothing. Maybe someone here knows something about configuring mutt? Failing that, how easy is it to go back to an older version of mutt? My mutt on etch always opened a new Tab. sigh You mean you want to get rid of the view attachments window? Well, you can tweak the way Mutt handles attachments: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.04.22.15.51...@gmail.com
Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: Assembled Wisdom! I have been running mutt for a good many years from with my Debian Linux distribution. A couple of days ago I upgraded from Debian etch to Debian squeeze and got mutt 1.5.20. It has one behavior that I don't like and I hope that it can be changed: when I type 'v' within mutt I am given a choice of viewing the message within a browser window. My Firefox is almost always open, and previously mutt would display the message within a new Tab. Now a new Firefox Window is opened. I don't like that! Can I change that behaviour e.g. with a command in my .muttrc? The above is what I posted to the mutt E-list. I got one person who wrote, yeah, I'd like to know that too; but otherwise nothing. Maybe someone here knows something about configuring mutt? Failing that, how easy is it to go back to an older version of mutt? My mutt on etch always opened a new Tab. sigh Best wishes to all, Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A. Whenever anyone says, theoretically, they really mean, not really. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110421131954.GA3436@alanmcc.localdomain
Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT
Dear Alan, On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:19:54AM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: I have been running mutt for a good many years from with my Debian Linux distribution. A couple of days ago I upgraded from Debian etch to Debian squeeze and got mutt 1.5.20. It has one behavior that I don't like and I hope that it can be changed: when I type 'v' within mutt I am given a choice of viewing the message within a browser window. My Firefox is almost always open, and previously mutt would display the message within a new Tab. Now a new Firefox Window is opened. I don't like that! Can I change that behaviour e.g. with a command in my .muttrc? The above is what I posted to the mutt E-list. I got one person who wrote, yeah, I'd like to know that too; but otherwise nothing. Maybe someone here knows something about configuring mutt? Failing that, how easy is it to go back to an older version of mutt? My mutt on etch always opened a new Tab. sigh You can check the command line with which firefox is called (from the mailcap, possibly?). Just change it to do: firefox -new-tab $URL That way, you can get it to open in a new tab. HTH. Kumar -- A Linux machine! Because a 486 is a terrible thing to waste! -- Joe Sloan, j...@wintermute.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110421134159.ga6...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu
Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 08:42:01AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: a new Tab. Now a new Firefox Window is opened. I don't like that! Can I change that behaviour e.g. with a command in my .muttrc? The above is what I posted to the mutt E-list. I got one person who wrote, yeah, I'd like to know that too; but otherwise nothing. Maybe someone here knows something about configuring mutt? Failing that, how easy is it to go back to an older version of mutt? My mutt on etch always opened a new Tab. sigh You can check the command line with which firefox is called (from the mailcap, possibly?). Just change it to do: firefox -new-tab $URL Dear Kumar Appaiah, can you be a little more specific? I have looked at /etc/mailcap in my new squeeze, and also at the mailcap in my backup of my etc etc. They seem to be different files. I have greped new-tab in both and it isn't to be found, However, I greped mutt in /etc/mailcap, and I found the line message/rfc822; mutt -Rf '%s'; edit=mutt -f '%s'; needsterminal I don't dare monkey with this! unless I am granted permission by Higher Authority(initials: K.A.) Please straighten me out! TIA, Alan the Timid -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A. Whenever anyone says, theoretically, they really mean, not really. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110421143426.GA3830@alanmcc.localdomain
Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT
Alan McConnell wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: Can I change that behaviour e.g. with a command in my .muttrc? The above is what I posted to the mutt E-list. I got one person who wrote, yeah, I'd like to know that too; but otherwise nothing. Maybe someone here knows something about configuring mutt? Failing that, how easy is it to go back to an older version of mutt? My mutt on etch always opened a new Tab. sigh Tab Mix Plus has an option to enable single window mode in the links group of options. Perhaps that can help you? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4db041fe.9000...@affinityvision.com.au
Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt
Alan McConnell wrote at 2011-04-21 09:34 -0500: I have looked at /etc/mailcap in my new squeeze, and also at the mailcap in my backup of my etc etc. They seem to be different files. I have greped new-tab in both and it isn't to be found No, you need to add it. And the file to edit is probably: ~/.mailcap Add a line like: text/html; iceweasel -new-tab '%s'; test=test -n $DISPLAY; nametemplate=%s.html If another text/html; entry exists, you may need to comment (#) it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:30:38AM -0500, green wrote: Alan McConnell wrote at 2011-04-21 09:34 -0500: I have looked at /etc/mailcap in my new squeeze, and also at the mailcap in my backup of my etc etc. They seem to be different files. I have greped new-tab in both and it isn't to be found No, you need to add it. And the file to edit is probably: ~/.mailcap Add a line like: text/html; iceweasel -new-tab '%s'; test=test -n $DISPLAY; nametemplate=%s.html If another text/html; entry exists, you may need to comment (#) it. Bingo! I didn't have a .mailcap in my home directory, I just created it populated with the line above. And now my mutt puts the stuff into a Tab just like I wanted. Mr Green is herewith added to my growing list of Geniuses! How did you ever know about this, Mr Green? is this documented anywhere, or did you intuit it? Maybe you are the mutt developer? You've certainly added evidence to my claim, made in a different E-mail, that E-mail, the killer app, is by no means a piece of cake to set up correctly. Anyway, many thanks, and I'll pass this along to the mutt E-list. Greetings to all! Alan McConnell, in Silver Spring MD -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A. Whenever anyone says, theoretically, they really mean, not really. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110421213702.GA5956@alanmcc.localdomain
Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:37:02PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:30:38AM -0500, green wrote: No, you need to add it. And the file to edit is probably: ~/.mailcap Add a line like: text/html; iceweasel -new-tab '%s'; test=test -n $DISPLAY; nametemplate=%s.html If another text/html; entry exists, you may need to comment (#) it. Bingo! I didn't have a .mailcap in my home directory, I just created it populated with the line above. And now my mutt puts the stuff into a Tab just like I wanted. Mr Green is herewith added to my growing list of Geniuses! How did you ever know about this, Mr Green? is this documented anywhere, or did you intuit it? Maybe you are the mutt developer? You've certainly added evidence to my claim, made in a different E-mail, that E-mail, the killer app, is by no means a piece of cake to set up correctly. Nice to hear that it worked. :-) The details are in section 5 of the Mutt manual: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html Kumar -- Because I don't need to worry about finances I can ignore Microsoft and take over the (computing) world from the grassroots. -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110421223913.gb17...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in
Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt
Alan McConnell wrote at 2011-04-21 16:37 -0500: And now my mutt puts the stuff into a Tab just like I wanted. Hey, that's great. Mr Green is herewith added to my growing list of Geniuses! [redface] How did you ever know about this, Mr Green? Kumar mentioned mailcap, so I looked in ~/.mailcap and found a line I had put there before for a similar reason. I verified by searching online with mutt html iceweasel and the first Google result was: http://enricorossi.org/blog/2010/google_chrome_as_mutt_html_viewer/ I knew that Firefox in Debian is branded as iceweasel so I used that in place of firefox (does not matter probably). I added some other stuff to the line according to man page mailcap(5). Maybe you are the mutt developer? [aghast] Outrageous! I wish I could claim that. Anyway, many thanks I am glad to help a bit. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
