Re: Using a script to diplay web links

[David Sumbler]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 01 2005, David Sumbler wrote:
>
>> I use Gnus on a virtual console under Linux.  I have
>> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m) in my .gnus file.  The display of
>> HTML emails is fine.  The problem I have is with links contained in
>> some emails.
>>
>> I have a bash script which takes a URL as a parameter and displays the
>> relevant page in a new tab in Firefox.  I want this to be used if I
>> decide to follow a link in an email.
>
> (setq browse-url-generic-program "xsel.sh" ;; replace with your script
>       browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic)
>
> (defun rs-w3m-view-this-url ()
>   "View the URL of the link under point.
> Use `browse-url' when in a Gnus article buffer, else use
> `w3m-safe-view-this-url'."
>   (interactive)
>   (if (string-equal gnus-article-buffer (buffer-name))
>       (let ((url (w3m-url-valid (w3m-anchor))))
>       (if url
>           (browse-url url)
>         (w3m-message "No URL at point")))
>     (w3m-safe-view-this-url)))
> ;; Map it to RET and/or <right>:
> (define-key w3m-minor-mode-map (kbd "RET")     'rs-w3m-view-this-url)
> (define-key w3m-minor-mode-map (kbd "<right>") 'rs-w3m-view-this-url)

Thanks - seems to work like a dream!

David

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