Tools for reading Dr Dobb's Python-URL

[Gerhard Haering]

* Egbert Bouwman <egbert.list at hccnet.nl> [2003-07-27 16:41 +0200]:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 01:48:55PM +0200, Irmen de Jong wrote:
> > 
> > Open the message in your news reader.
> > Click on an URL in the message.
> > 
> > Sorry, couldn't resist. I'm not sure what you want to
> > do, really? 
> 
> My mail reader is the text-based Mutt, which:
> - doesn't react to mouse clicks
> - does show url's in a different color

Mutt is infinitely configurable:

color body       brightcyan     black \
  "((ftp|http|https)://|(file|mailto|news):|www\\.)[-a-z at 0-9_.:]*[a-z0-9](/[^][{} \t\n\r\"<>()]*[^][{} \t\n\r\"<>().,:])?"

> - seems not to do anything useful with them [...]

I highlight the whole URL with the mouse, then middle-click in my GUI browser
window to open a URL I see in mutt.

Alternatively you could use a terminal program like KDE's konsole that parses
URLs itself and makes them clickable.

-- Gerhard