Re: Highlighting URLs

[Charles Kerr <charles rebelbase com>]

> Balsa currently highlights a URL in a plain text message by setting it 
> in a distinctive color, and indicates when the cursor is over the URL 
> by:
>   - changing the cursor to the `pointing hand';
>   - showing the URL in the status bar at the foot of the main window.
> In Gnome-2, text will be shown in a GtkTextView widget, which would 
> make it possible to add more bells and whistles. For instance, the text 
> could be underlined when the cursor is over it, or changed to yet 
> another color, or both. However, we shouldn't necessarily make such 
> changes just because we can! Has anyone seen a really effective 
> treatment that Balsa could adopt?

Pan does this in cvs head in pan/pan/text.c.  It could stand some
more bells and whistles -- I haven't added the little hand when
the user mouses over a URL -- but it might be a decent starting point.

cheers,
Charles