Open URL in running instance

[4217th]

Is it possible to get urlscan to open new tabs in a running browser instance, rather than opening an instance which then blocks mutt/urlscan?
I cant find a way to configure what happens when enter is pressed on a selected url...

[firecat53]

On September 13, 2018 6:26:13 AM PDT, 4217th ***@***.***> wrote: Is it possible to get urlscan to open new tabs in a running browser instance, rather than opening an instance which then blocks mutt/urlscan? I cant find a way to configure what happens when enter is pressed on a selected url... -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #73

From the README: To choose a particular browser, set the environment variable BROWSER. If BROWSER is not set, xdg-open will control which browser is used, if it's available.: export BROWSER=/usr/bin/epiphany It "just works", opening tabs in a running browser instance without blocking. There are some apps that block (Libreoffice if I remember right) when opened via xdg-open but browsers aren't one of them. I've used urlscan with Firefox, Chrome and qutebrowser without any trouble.

[4217th]

I'm using qutebrowser (export BROWSER=/usr/bin/qutebrowser) and the macro provided in the urlscan README and urlscan opens a new window and is blocked until that process is killed.

eg I use urlscan to open a link, switching back to urlscan won't let me select another link or return to the email without closing the browser itself or keyboard-interrupt in the urlscan/mutt shell.

edit:
I just tried with reddit terminal viewer and here urlscan works as expected, so there seems to be something wrong with my mutt config.

I don't have any special settings in my muttrc that I know of, though

[firecat53]

On September 13, 2018 7:42:23 AM PDT, 4217th ***@***.***> wrote: I'm using qutebrowser (export BROWSER=/usr/bin/qutebrowser) and the macro provided in the urlscan README and urlscan opens a new window and is blocked until that process is killed. eg I use urlscan to open a link, switching back to urlscan won't let me select another link or return to the email without closing the browser itself or keyboard-interrupt in the urlscan/mutt shell. -- You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #73 (comment)

You've got something else funky going on with your setup, I think. That's exactly the configuration I use and other people use without any issue. What distro are you using? Python version? Terminal? I can see if I can replicate in a VM.

[4217th]

Turns out I need to select urls with "space" when I use URLscan in mutt while in eg reddit terminal browser "cr" works aswell

Not sure if I'm an idiot and this should have been obvious or if this weird behaviour (I'm fairly new to mutt)

[firecat53]

No, 'Enter' works just like 'space' on my machine. Never heard of anyone having trouble with that. It's wired into the Urwid module. There's nothing in urlscan that drives which key opens the url. Maybe check what versions of urwid and python you have installed?

[firecat53]

Any other info or changes with your issue/setup?

[firecat53]

Closing...let me know if you have any more trouble with it.