Re: Links in email messages

Subject: Re: Links in email messages

Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 09:21:16 +0100

To: Bart Bunting, Adam Wolfe Gordon

Cc: Notmuch Mail

From: Mark Walters


Hi

I think C-c RET works to follow the link. At least that seems to do the
same as clicking it.

I agree that just RET would be nice, but also would like the links to be
treated as buttons so next-button (ie TAB) would stop at them. What do
other people think?

(I have a preliminary implementation that does this)

Best wishes

Mark




Bart Bunting <bart@ursys.com.au> writes:

> Adam,
>
> Thanks for the tip.  That is obvious now you point it out.
>
> I too would welcome an implementation that allowed hitting enter to
> follow a link.  Hitting another key though is not too arduous.
>
> Guyzmo, no problems regarding your interpretation of my question.  I
> should have been more specific with regards to emacs.
>
>  
>
> Kind regards
>
> Bart
>
> Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch@xvx.ca> writes:
>
>> Hi Bart,
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Bart Bunting <bart@ursys.com.au> wrote:
>>> I am having trouble activating links in emails.  I guess what I
>>> intuitively expect to happen is that if i hit enter on a link that it
>>> opens up using browse-url-at-point or similar.
>>>
>>> All that appears to happen is that the message I'm viewing collapses.
>>>
>>> I would also if possible like urls to be active in text messages as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> Is there an easy solution to this that I'm missing?
>>
>> First off, if anyone would like to implement this feature, I would
>> definitely appreciate it. I don't have a great solution, but there are
>> two workarounds I've used for this:
>>
>> 1. I used to use a terminal that automatically made links clickable
>> (with a modifier key). This worked well until I got tired of other
>> bugs in that terminal. (Note that this only applies if, like me, you
>> run emacs -nw).
>>
>> 2. These days I add a key to the notmuch-show keymap mapped to
>> browse-url-at-point, with the following:
>>
>> (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "U" 'browse-url-at-point)
>>
>> So when there's a URL I want to see, I go to it and hit U. It's not as
>> convenient/obvious as enter, but it works well enough. I assume this
>> works in non-terminal emacs as well.
>>
>> -- Adam
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