Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT
Dear Alan,
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:19:54AM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> > I have been running mutt for a good many years from with my
> > Debian Linux distribution. A couple of days ago I upgraded from
> > Debian etch to Debian squeeze and got mutt 1.5.20. It has
> > one behavior that I don't like and I hope that it can be
> > changed: when I type 'v' within mutt I am given a choice of
> > viewing the message within a browser window. My Firefox is almost
> > always open, and previously mutt would display the message within
> > a new Tab. Now a new Firefox Window is opened. I don't like that!
> > Can I change that behaviour e.g. with a command in my .muttrc?
> The above is what I posted to the mutt E-list. I got one
> person who wrote, "yeah, I'd like to know that too"; but
> otherwise nothing.
>
> Maybe someone here knows something about configuring mutt?
>
> Failing that, how easy is it to go back to an older version
> of mutt? My mutt on etch always opened a new Tab. <sigh>
You can check the command line with which firefox is called (from the
mailcap, possibly?). Just change it to do:
firefox -new-tab "$URL"
That way, you can get it to open in a new tab.
HTH.
Kumar
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