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