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Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt



On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:37:02PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:30:38AM -0500, green wrote:
> > No, you need to add it.  And the file to edit is probably: ~/.mailcap
> > Add a line like:
> > text/html; iceweasel -new-tab '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.html
> > 
> > If another text/html; entry exists, you may need to comment (#) it.
>      	     Bingo!  I didn't have a .mailcap in my home directory, I
> 	     just created it populated with the line above.  And now
> 	     my mutt puts the stuff into a Tab just like I wanted.
> 	     Mr Green is herewith added to my growing list of Geniuses!
> 
> How did you ever know about this, Mr Green?  is this documented anywhere,
> or did you intuit it?  Maybe you are the mutt developer?  You've
> certainly added evidence to my claim, made in a different E-mail,
> that E-mail, the killer app, is by no means a piece of cake to
> set up correctly.

Nice to hear that it worked. :-) The details are in section 5 of the
Mutt manual:

http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html

Kumar
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