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Re: [Pan-users] html
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Thufir |
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Re: [Pan-users] html |
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Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:52:19 -0700 |
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Pan/0.136 (I'm far too busy being delicious; GIT 926a150 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) |
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