Re: [Pan-users] html

[Thufir]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:38:58 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:


> mutt does something very similar for email. It can be configured to use
> a console browser like links, lynx or w3m to dump the html to text, then
> display that.
> 
> http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2012/05/12/mutt/
> 
> I see no reason why Pan couldn't use an external dependancy for this
> like mutt does. As you suggest, stripping tags is hard, there's no
> reason why Pan should be forced to implement its own when it can push
> the hard part onto existing tools, of which there are already at least
> three.

Ditto.  It could even require some configuration, and be a beta feature, 
that would be fine.  

-Thufir