Subject: Viewing URLs from within Pine (fwd)

From: C A MITCHELL <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:52:30 +0100 (BST)

Further to Skrikanth Vallabhaneni's message to Pine, I wonder whether
anyone can give any clues on using pine, or any computing package, 
calmly & relaxed!

                                Carol Mitchell

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:47:24 +0530 (IST)
From: "Srikanth V. Vallabhaneni" <[email-masked]>
To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
Subject: Viewing URLs from within Pine

Hi all,

I use Pine V4.10 for Solaris and I have a query on viewing URLs from
within Pine.

My Pine is configured for both Netscape and Lynx as url-viewers and
they both work fine. I would like to know if there is a way by which, I
can toggle between the choice of browsers with a hot-key rather than
manually editing the application, everytime I switch browsers. I find
it much faster to view text-based articles with Lynx than Netscape.

If there is no direct way of doing this in V4.10, I think it would
be a pretty nifty feature to have in later releases.

-- 
Thanks,
Srikanth

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From: Miles Fidelman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:02:10 -0400 (EDT)

I've noticed that pine sometimes makes a URL clickable, and sometimes
doesn't.  What rules does pine follow to recognize a URL inside a text
message?

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From: Satya <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:07:31 +0530 (IST)

> anyone can give any clues on using pine, or any computing package, 

The best answer that I can come up with is: Read The Documentation :)

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:45:48 -0700 (PDT)

It looks like it goes by how the URL starts (of course, it has other logic
to determine the end of the URL). If it starts with http://something or
ftp://something it should be clickable (as these nonsense examples
probably are).  Also, you can optionally have Pine try to find URLs that
don't have the http:// or ftp:// by enabling:

                 FEATURE: enable-msg-view-web-hostnames

This feature modifies the behavior of Pine's MESSAGE TEXT screen. Setting
this feature causes Pine to select possible web hostnames from the
displayed text and display them in boldface for selection. This can be
useful when you receive messages referencing World Wide Web sites without
the use of complete URLs; for example, specifying only
"www.washington.edu/pine/" (which will not become a selectable item by
setting "enable-msg-view-urls") rather than explicitly
"http://www.washington.edu/pine/".

Does that answer your question?
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From: "Ed Greshko" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 08:31:07 +0800

Satya,

> The best answer that I can come up with is: Read The Documentation :)

I beg to differ.  I've found the key to using pine, or any computing package, in
a calm and relaxed manner is to have a glass (or bottle) of fine tawny port on
hand.  Further, to ensure the relaxed mood one should commence with a sipping
action 30 minutes prior to interaction with any computer.

Regards,
Ed

P.S.  The above is not encouraged for minors, pregnant women, or anyone planning
to operate a motor vehicle.