On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:20:57AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Morisset decreed:
> Hi all.
>
> I often receive plain/text e-mails with URLs in them. Normally, I would
> call up urlview, select the url, and then lynx would start-up to display
> that page. My problem is that some of the URLs point to images. :-) If I
> use the standard urlview->lynx technique, lynx will download the image,
> start xv (my prefered image viewer), and then exit. When lynx exits, it
> removes the temporary file it downloaded, which causes xv to display an
> error about not finding the specified file. :-)
Apologies for hitting send too soon without adding the attachment!
--- original response ---
I tried urlview and decided that I prefered to see the entire email when
dealing with the links. So I wrote my own script.
The attached Python script loads the entire email into a GUI browser as
HTML, with URLs made into real hyperlinks.
I have the following lines in my .muttrc to invoke it from Ctrl-b and
invoke the Opera browser. It should be easy to adapt to other browsers.
macro index \cb "|email2html.py > /tmp/email.html; opera /tmp/email.html \n"
macro pager \cb "|email2html.py > /tmp/email.html; opera /tmp/email.html \n"
Let me know if this is useful enough to post somewhere.
Obviously enjoy it, but use it entirely at your own risk.
HTH and cheers,
Steve
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Steve Cooper Redmond, WA
#!/usr/bin/env python2
import sys
import re
#=== Globals
# Regular expression for isolating URLs
reURL = re.compile('(((http|https|ftp|gopher)|mailto)[.:][^ >"\t]*|www\.[-a-z0-9.]+)')
# Colors
bgColor = "#ffffff"
labelColor = "#5050e0"
textColor = "#000000"
#=== Fix line function
def FixLine(line):
line = line.strip()
line = line.replace('<','<')
line = line.replace('>','>')
return line
#=== Header list class
class HeaderList:
def __init__(self):
self.headers = {}
# Specification for desired visible headers
# TODO: Un-hardcode this!
self.reHeaders = re.compile('^[ \t]*(From|To|Date|Subject):[ \t]*(.*)$',
re.IGNORECASE)
def ScanLine(self, line):
matchHeader = self.reHeaders.search(line)
if matchHeader is not None:
self.headers[matchHeader.group(1).lower()] = matchHeader.group(2)
def OutputLine(self, name, label, size = "+0"):
if self.headers.has_key(name):
print '<b><font color="%s" size="%s">%s: </font></b>' % (labelColor, size,
label)
print '<font color="%s" size="%s">%s</font><br>' % (textColor, size,
self.headers[name])
def Output(self):
# TODO: Un-hardcode this!
self.OutputLine('from', 'From')
self.OutputLine('to', 'To', '-1')
self.OutputLine('date', 'Date', '-1')
self.OutputLine('subject', 'Subject', '+1')
print '<hr><br>'
print '<html>'
print '<head>'
print '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">'
print '<title>Mutt Email</title>'
print '</head>'
print '<body bgcolor="%s">' % bgColor
#=== Scan headers
headers = HeaderList()
line = sys.stdin.readline()
while line:
line = FixLine(line)
# Assume first empty line is the end of the headers
if not line:
break
headers.ScanLine(line)
line = sys.stdin.readline()
#=== Format header lines
headers.Output()
#=== Scan and display body
print '<PRE>'
nLine = 0
line = sys.stdin.readline()
while line:
line = FixLine(line)
nLine = nLine + 1
match = reURL.search(line)
while match is not None:
sub = '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (match.group(1), match.group(1))
line = line[:match.start(1)] + sub + line[match.end():]
skip = match.start() + len(sub)
match = reURL.search(line, skip)
print '%s' % line
line = sys.stdin.readline()
print '</PRE>'
print '</body>'
print '</html>'
