display-hooking w3m / was: mutt for blind computerusers
Hi Gary and all,
why didn't I come up with this workaround? I use w3m regularly - I
hacked my url_handler.sh into calling it when no Netscape is running
(hardly recently) and as long as Opera refuses to take remote commands
(although it says it understands them, Opera 5 and Opera 6 TP1 don't).
The workaround does not help Schoeppi a bit, of course, but it's an
interesting idea in its own right.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:23:51AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
Display-hooks let you set w3m as the pager for just those messages that
you know have a lot of embedded URLs, e.g.,
display-hook ~A 'set pager=builtin'
display-hook '~s reg headlines' 'set pager=w3m'
Could you automate it? Could you find out whether there are more
than, say, 3 URLs in a message body so it's worth to hand over control
to w3m? Can you do it without slowing down the whole Mutt?
Surely, your proposed solution will help me to read LinguistList
digests, so thank you very much so far!
Cristian
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Re: display-hooking w3m / was: mutt for blind computerusers
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:48:04PM +0100, Cristian wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:23:51AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: Display-hooks let you set w3m as the pager for just those messages that you know have a lot of embedded URLs, e.g., display-hook ~A 'set pager=builtin' display-hook '~s reg headlines' 'set pager=w3m' Could you automate it? Could you find out whether there are more than, say, 3 URLs in a message body so it's worth to hand over control to w3m? Can you do it without slowing down the whole Mutt? I don't think so. The problem is that you would have to use an external program to count the URLs and mutt doesn't send the message text to any external program (e.g., display_filter or pager) until it has decided which pager it is going to use. An external pager wrapper program could select among a set of external pagers, but it couldn't select mutt's internal pager. I also have Ctrl-B mapped to use w3m instead of urlview, so invoking w3m on a message I'm already reading with the built-in pager is pretty simple. I just wish I could tell w3m to always find and mark URLs as links instead of having to type ':' each time. Surely, your proposed solution will help me to read LinguistList digests, so thank you very much so far! You're welcome. Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Spokane, Washington, USA http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ |
Re: display-hooking w3m / was: mutt for blind computerusers
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:40:36PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:48:04PM +0100, Cristian wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:23:51AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: Could you automate it? Could you find out whether there are more than, say, 3 URLs in a message body so it's worth to hand over control to w3m? Can you do it without slowing down the whole Mutt? I don't think so. The problem is that you would have to use an external program to count the URLs and mutt doesn't send the message text to any external program (e.g., display_filter or pager) until it has decided which pager it is going to use. An external pager wrapper program could select among a set of external pagers, but it couldn't select mutt's internal pager. what if you set up a procmail filter, to add a header to messages with 3 or more urls, and then have mutt match that header? would that work? -- Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] msg20894/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: display-hooking w3m / was: mutt for blind computerusers
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:54:33PM -0500, Dan Boger wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:40:36PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:48:04PM +0100, Cristian wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:23:51AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: Could you automate it? Could you find out whether there are more than, say, 3 URLs in a message body so it's worth to hand over control to w3m? Can you do it without slowing down the whole Mutt? I don't think so. The problem is that you would have to use an external program to count the URLs and mutt doesn't send the message text to any external program (e.g., display_filter or pager) until it has decided which pager it is going to use. An external pager wrapper program could select among a set of external pagers, but it couldn't select mutt's internal pager. what if you set up a procmail filter, to add a header to messages with 3 or more urls, and then have mutt match that header? would that work? Yes, I think that would work. Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Spokane, Washington, USA http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ |
Re: display-hooking w3m / was: mutt for blind computerusers
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:48:04PM +0100, Cristian wrote: Hi Gary and all, why didn't I come up with this workaround? I use w3m regularly - I hacked my url_handler.sh into calling it when no Netscape is running (hardly recently) and as long as Opera refuses to take remote commands (although it says it understands them, Opera 5 and Opera 6 TP1 don't). The workaround does not help Schoeppi a bit, of course, but it's an interesting idea in its own right. On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:23:51AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: Display-hooks let you set w3m as the pager for just those messages that you know have a lot of embedded URLs, e.g., display-hook ~A 'set pager=builtin' display-hook '~s reg headlines' 'set pager=w3m' Could you automate it? Could you find out whether there are more than, say, 3 URLs in a message body so it's worth to hand over control to w3m? Can you do it without slowing down the whole Mutt? Surely, your proposed solution will help me to read LinguistList digests, so thank you very much so far! ---end quoted text--- Cristian, it IS possible for Opera to take remote commands. I do it all the time. Try the following: /usr/bin/opera '%s,new-window' I use this with klipper in mandrake 8.0+. -- Pat Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 Registered at: http://counter.li.org
