Workaround for urlview in Mutt 1.5.23, Slack 14.1

Zwergele · 01-24-2015, 03:54 PM

Slackware 14.1 has no provision for urlview (that I have found -- looked at SBo and Alien Bob), so I assume those days are over. It would be fun to have URL extraction in Mutt, though. AFAIK whatever text-based browser you use for that purpose, w3m or Lynx, etc, urlview is still required. I suspect I overlooked something. Comments, please, and TIA.

ml4711 · 01-25-2015, 10:09 AM

You can use the one for slackware version 13.1 from slackbuilds it works fine.

To use it on a 64bit system,
You also need this gentoo-x86_64.patch to prevent segfaults

Code:

--- urlview.c.orig      2005-02-06 17:10:54.000000000 +0100
+++ urlview.c   2005-02-06 17:57:06.998290062 +0100
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>

+#include "quote.h"
+
 #ifdef HAVE_REGEX_H
 #include <regex.h>
 #else

Enjoy

Zwergele · 01-25-2015, 11:31 AM

A thousand thanks!

Ooops! I can't download the source from SBo, and ftp://ftp.mutt/org/pub/mutt/contrib is not responding ("unavailable"). The Powers That Be seem to have shut the door on this little feature.

Xsane · 01-26-2015, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zwergele

A thousand thanks!

Ooops! I can't download the source from SBo, and ftp://ftp.mutt/org/pub/mutt/contrib is not responding ("unavailable"). The Powers That Be seem to have shut the door on this little feature.

https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/urlview

Zwergele · 01-26-2015, 09:33 AM

Sincere thanks to everybody who has tried to help! This looks to me like a tar baby, so I'm moving on. I'm a computer user, not a computer hobbyist.

jostber · 01-26-2015, 03:29 PM

You also have these two alternatives that work with mutt:

urlscan

https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan

extract_url.pl

http://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/extract_url/

j_v · 01-26-2015, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jostber

You also have these two alternatives that work with mutt:

urlscan

https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan

extract_url.pl

http://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/extract_url/

Thanks for sharing these links. I've been considering returning to using mutt, so these should come in handy.