Re: mutt on a Commodore terminal program (Re: CBM720 heads up)

From: william degnan <billdegnan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 13:09:48 -0500
Message-ID: <CABGJBucU74=qObv7LCwiReXbAhCGxV8VO1hPUaY1pvW5W8a_AQ@mail.gmail.com>
I agree.  mutt is really only useful in a modern terminal or VT100, not
something like a CBM 256-80.  Use mailx.
b

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Marko Mäkelä <msmakela@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 10:19:27AM -0500, william degnan wrote:
>
>> No web browser, just command line things.
>>
>
> I would not classify mutt as a command-line program. I would associate the
> command-line with something that would work with a line-oriented terminal,
> such as a teletype.
>
> If you want a command-line setup, then BSD mailx and ed should do the job.
> I am not aware of any command-line web browser.
>
> If you want textual user interface (TUI) that works with a display
> terminal such as the Digital VT100, then I do not see why elinks would be
> any different from mutt, vi, or emacs. It is just like lynx that I used to
> use some 20 years ago, but supports some HTML features better.
>
> For interfacing elinks with mutt, I have the following in my .muttrc:
>
> auto_view text/html
>
> In .mailcap, I have two lines that control mutt:
>
> text/html;      elinks -eval "set document.codepage.assume = %{charset}"
> %s; nametemplate=%s.html
> text/html;      elinks -dump -eval "set document.codepage.assume =
> %{charset}" %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
>
> The first one is for interactive display (for example, if I want to follow
> the hyperlinks), and the second one is for viewing the HTML as text in the
> built-in viewer of mutt.
>
>
>         Marko
>
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