On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:56:29 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:40:18 -0600, Gerald L wrote: > >> According to the others "Terminal" or "terminal" is probably the >> right >> command -- but since alpine includes arguments you'll probably need to >> quote it. >> >> Terminal -e 'alpine -url %s' >> >> or, if %s is pre-expanded by Pan >> >> Terminal -e 'alpine -url ' %s >> (note the space between -url and the final ') > > I tried pasting each of those into the proper space; neither one > did the trick.
Got it. The key was what Duncan said, prompting me to look up the mailto protocol. As a first test, I set my pan Mail Reader Custom Command to: xmessage %s That was to see what exactly would be passed by pan. The most intriguing thing was that it included a literal %s followed by the mailto: URL, including subject and body. Therefore, we do NOT want the %s in there at all. Then, experimenting with xfce4-terminal (same as your Terminal) with -e alpine, etc. I found that it had to have single quotes around the argument to the -e, just as Gerald L had said. Trouble is, you can't do that since pan is going to put the mailto: URL AFTER whatever command you specify in the preferences. So, again taking a tip from Duncan, I wrote the following little Perl glue program and called it alpine_helper.pl. Here it is: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $url_from_pan = $ARGV[0]; my $command = "xfce4-terminal -e 'alpine -url " . $url_from_pan . "'"; system($command); You will use Terminal instead of xfce4-terminal. Save this file and make it executable (chmod 755 alpine_helper.pl). The whole point of this little program is to sneak the "alpine -url ", plus the URL passed by pan, inside the required pair of single quotes which have to surround the argument of the "-e" when you use Terminal (or xfce4-terminal in my case). I put this program in my bin directory in my home directory, i.e., /home/ david/bin. So in my pan preferences for the Mail Reader Custom Command, I just put: /home/david/bin/alpine_helper.pl That does the trick. -- David _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
