Re: links in mail body

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I'm deeply confused about the way that links within email/news bodies are
> treated. It seems to me that links behave differently depending on whether
> the mail is plain text or HTML, and possibly whether it is a mail or news
> item?

Well, between plain text and HTML, certainly, when using w3m (the old way) to
render the mail: it does the w3m thing rather than the Gnus thing.

I use this code to do the right thing inside w3m HTML mail too:

(defadvice w3m-safe-view-this-url
  (around gnus-open-in-real-browser activate)
  "Cause w3m to open a URL in an external browser, but only within the
scope of a Gnus mail buffer.  In theory.  It presently doesn't implement
that limit at all."
  (browse-url (w3m-anchor)))

Please notice the documented limitation in that advice, of course.

        Daniel
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