What OS & mail client do -you- use?

Mon Oct 27 11:53:38 PST 2003

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:15:51 -0800 
Mark C Langston <mark at bitshift.org> wrote:

> And as far as "integration" goes, when you can "integrate" the
> behavior of a mail reader running on a box via ssh in another
> (room|city|continent) with the GUI web browser running on the=20
> desktop from which I'm connecting to the remote host to read mail, I
> might be tempted to care about it.  Until then, cut and paste work
> just as well, if not better, than a mouseclick (particularly since
> one's brain is more likely to process what is about to be requested by
> the browser before the request occurs).

I haven't tried this, so warnings about gross arm-waving and caveats
come in advance:

  There is a little tool which purports to extend bog-standard Xterms
  such that it auto-recognises and buttonises URL strings.

  Now I'm guessing that if you grabbed that, ran it against the XTerm in
  question, and then ran ssh/screen et all within that Xterm, that you
  could get URLs in text on a remote host invoking a local browser on
  click.

All of course untested, unverified, and without me actually remembering
the name or citation to the tool in question 'coz I don't use it.  Such
exercises are left for the motivated reader.  

This advice is worth and will cost you one unvested option in a defunct
startup of your choice.

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