Re: [Nmh-workers] selecting text over html

[Scott Blachowicz]

Paul Fox <address@hidden> wrote:

>  > 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:
>
> thanks jerry. these are good suggestions, and i'll give them a try.
>
> it seems, though, that this should be relatively easy to do in the code
> somewhere: prefer text to html, rather than vice-versa. my

I'd suggest that it be generalized some, so that maybe there is a profile
entry that lists order of preference for alternatives:

    mhshow-preferred-types: text/plain text/html text/richtext

That way, it can be used if any other types pop up...

> problem is that i can't _find_ this decision in the code. :-) can anyone
> point me in the right direction? where is the choice made between text
> and html parts? (of course, it's possible that if i'm having this much
> trouble finding it, that i won't be able to fix it either. ;-)

I couldn't find that decision point either...I'm GUESSING that it just
ends up taking the last alternative of the set and shows that one (or
something like that)...whether or not that's intentional, I don't know.
Maybe you could have a mail filter that reorders the alternatives before
delivering it? :)

Scott