From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 22 21:37:53 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA07AE8F for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:37:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from p3plsmtpa09-08.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa09-08.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.193.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93628BDA for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:37:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tao.thought.org ([209.180.213.209]) by p3plsmtpa09-08.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id ElcG1l0074XeM0101lcGg1; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:36:16 -0700 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:36:15 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: mutt and http//url??? Message-ID: <20130322213615.GA23467@tao.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:37:53 -0000 guys, ==many== yeears ago when i was running Only FBSD, I asked this list how i could use mutt when somebody included an http://url.com; and i got replies that worked. --sseems like the url string got moved to the end and clicking on the string exec'd firefox. in the past couple years i've sub'd to the nytimes and other places where the http string is several dozens of bytes. in my mutt at least, there are "+" marks embedded at the beginning of each new lines. so that when i mouse lick on the url, i almost invariably get either Nothing from my browswer, or the wrong page. i've googled for days. zero. im finally asking the top list on the web. can anybody clue me in? i'm using linux/gnome/mutt. but it shouldnt make any difference. [?!] tia, everybody, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.