On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Alpine allows opening an url in email; using the browser of your choice. > > > But aside from being tied to a terminal or a text-only virtual console, > Alpine reads email one screenful at a time, making it impossible to > navigate by element, and making it very difficult to skip or eliminate > quoted messages that people mostly on non-screen reader-related lists > like to quote, requote and rerequote 50 times, which gets unwieldy very > quickly. The other problem with screenful reading is that I have no > access to continuous arrow navigation, a SayAll function or something > like paragraph navigation that is usually available in desktop text > editors. It is also more difficult to select, copy and paste parts of a > message using a terminal, although it's not impossible. It's just not > consistent with other desktop applications. For many people these > wouldn't be huge problems, but my personal workflow does require things > to be continuously scrollable and SayAll functionality to be available, > as well as select/copy/paste functionality consistent with other desktop > applications to be available at times. I may have a different view for > my personal use if the message body opened into something similar to > w3m, which is scrollable, especially since element navigation through > email isn't quite as important as it is in a browser and I don't select > parts of messages to be pasted into other files or applications very > often, with the obvious exception of temporary passwords or verification > codes, so perhaps this is a feature that could be proposed for a future > release, unless of course it already exists and I don't know it. The one > possible showstopper for me would of course be threading. Anything that > doesn't support message threading would of course be a deal breaker for > sure. I prefer all threads to be collapsed, and to expend only the > threads I want to read, deleting the entire thread if I'm not interested > in reading it. If Alpine can do this, I could certainly run it on one of > my servers or in my own terminal, possibly as a backup if Thunderbird > fails, although I haven't seen this happen in years. > > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- ent- XR _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list