pazz/alot — Issue #316: Navigate to url in an email
Author: triumhiz
Created: 2012-02-08 19:37:41+00:00
State: open

Many emails contain some hyperlinks which are supposed to be clickable in gui mail clients.
I think it would be useful to implement a similar function in alot.

I can offer two possible ways:
1. Like in vimperator, uzbl and other keyboard-driven browsers: pressing a key (e.g. ) triggers enumerating of all the links currently visible in the viewport and showing these numbers near the link. Typing this number should lead to opening the url in a browser
2. This solution also covers #315. Thread view should have a horizontal cursor (highlighted terminal line) movable with "j" and "k" keys. Pressing e.g. "Enter" should open url under the cursor in a browser.
This option also lets introduce vim-like scrollings like 'zt', 'zz', 'zb' etc naturally.

The second way looks more convenient for me, although the first one may be faster and treats situation (rare enough in emails imho) when there are more than one url in a line.