Robert P. J. Day wrote:
sorry for what is more an "alpine" question than a fedora question,
but i recently switched my mail client from pine to alpine and, while
it was mostly painless, the one thing that's gone south is the ability
to just press ENTER on a URL in a message, and have that URL displayed
by firefox (previously by opening a new tab).
i've checked the alpine config settings, and it certainly seems like
i've got all the proper URL viewing-related settings set. has anyone
else done this? suggestions? thanks.
rday
Both Pine and Alpine are part of Scientific Linux 5, and by dint of "rpm
--replacefiles" I have both here.
I generally use pine on a VC (apart from anything else, it's a terrific
final spam filter), so launching firefox isn't very important to me.
Both here were built on norob.fnal.gov so I expect by the same person (I
think it's a two-person team), so probably with the same build options.
For those who don't know, they use the same configuration file (tho I
see that my copy of alpine mistakenly looks for /usr/local/lib/pine.conf
and /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed which do not exist.
You can check yours, Robert, like this:
strace -f -e trace=open -o /tmp/alpine alpine
and then
egrep pine.conf\|pinerc /tmp/alpine
using the configurations I have, pine treats text such as
http://example.com as links that I can open, and alpine does not.
Here, the effective configuration for pine is
built-in defaults
plus
/etc/pine.conf
/etc/pine.conf.fixed
plus
~/.pinetc
In contrast, the effective configuration for alpine is
built-in defaults
plus
~/.pinetc
and that's quite likely different.
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John
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