Re: Links in email messages

From: "Bart Bunting" <bart@ursys.com.au>
To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>,
	Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch@xvx.ca>
Cc: Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Links in email messages
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:50:45 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d2qbv86y.fsf@ursys.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ob9w8gsj.fsf@qmul.ac.uk>

That sounds exactly like what I was hoping for.

Kind regards
Bart

Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:

> 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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Bart