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Re: [Nmh-workers] selecting text over html
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Jerry Peek |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] selecting text over html |
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Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:39:47 -0600 |
On 1 September 2004 at 9:38, Paul Fox <address@hidden> wrote:
> is there a way to get nmh to to display the text version of
> a message in favor of an html version?
Here are two ideas:
1) Use the -nocheckmime or -noshowproc switch with show, next, and
prev. (I put it in my MH profile.) I like that as a default
because it lets me quickly recognize messages from spammers
(with a bunch of random text, funny HTML, etc.). Because the
first part of a message (just after the header) is supposed
to be the simplest formatting, it's usually plain text. That's
what I look at. If the message is only HTML, I can do something
else to see it.
2) Use commands like these:
$ mhlist
msg part type/subtype size description
1750 multipart/alternative 6632
1 text/html 4651
2 text/plain 1819
$ mhshow -part 2
That could be automated, I think, by a little script that checks the
output of "mhlist" to find the text/plain part number, if any.
> in an xterm, text _is_ the richest format. :-)
Actually, you can set a showproc that will check the message type
and, if it's HTML, extract that part and invoke lynx(1) or links(1)
to show it within the xterm. I used to do that, but I decided that
the HTML messages usually weren't worth the trouble.
Jerry
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