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| author | Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> | 2014-10-12 22:08:49 +0300 |
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| committer | Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> | 2014-10-12 22:09:34 +0300 |
| commit | 80716217891d5ada185c1968d1c5d567dcee40e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ee0f33c52df54ea98217cf09a43c5b52bfb3ec8 | |
| parent | f9f7b6c94b938c7fc675ad34b5c68096e07f97b5 (diff) | |
emacstips: invoking the external html viewer
Rewrite because the information was mostly obsolete *and* we couldn't
reach the author of existing text for license change:
commit 703ae92a5c0acdbea5384b36b78ea341e0b07da1
Author: Konrad Scorciapino <konrad@scorciapino.com>
Date: Wed Mar 23 16:20:16 2011 -0300
html rendering
Please don't resurrect that text without proper license.
| -rw-r--r-- | emacstips.mdwn | 50 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 44 deletions
diff --git a/emacstips.mdwn b/emacstips.mdwn index cd918bd..484d5ca 100644 --- a/emacstips.mdwn +++ b/emacstips.mdwn @@ -334,51 +334,13 @@ useful to you. ## Viewing HTML messages with an external viewer -The emacs client can display an HTML message inline using either the -`html2text` library or some text browser, like w3m or lynx. This is -controlled by the `mm-text-html-renderer` variable. +The Emacs client can generally display HTML messages inline using one of the +supported HTML renderers. This is controlled by the `mm-text-html-renderer` +variable. -The first option is theorically better, because it can generate -strings formatted for emacs and do whatever you want, e.g., substitute -text inside <b> tags for bold text in the buffer. The library, however -is still in a very early development phase and cannot yet process -properly many elements, like tables and <style> directives, and even -the generated text is often poorly formatted. - -Among the available browsers, w3m seems to do a better job converting -the html, and if you have the w3m emacs package, you can use it, -instead of the w3m-standalone, and thus preserve the text formatting. - -But if the rendering fails for one reason or another, or if you really -need to see the graphical presentation of the HTML message, it can be -useful to display the message in an external viewer, such as a web -browser. Here's a little script that Keith Packard wrote, which he -calls `view-html`: - - #!/bin/sh - dir=`mktemp -d` - trap "rm -r $dir" 0 - cat "$@" > "$dir"/msg - if munpack -C "$dir" -t < "$dir"/msg 2>&1 | grep 'Did not find'; then - sed -n '/[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]/,$p' "$dir"/msg > $dir/part1.html - rm "$dir"/msg - fi - for i in "$dir"/part*; do - if grep -q -i -e '<html>' -e 'text/html' "$i"; then - iceweasel "$i" & - sleep 3 - exit 0 - fi - done - -Save that script somewhere in your `${PATH}`, make it executable, -and change the invocation of `iceweasel` to any other HTML viewer if -necessary. Then within the emacs client, press '|' to pipe the -current message, then type "view-html". - -Keith mentions the following caveat, "Note that if iceweasel isn't -already running, it seems to shut down when the script exits. I -don't know why." +Sometimes it may be necessary to display the message, or a single MIME part, in +an external browser. This can be done by `(notmuch-show-view-part)`, bound to +`. v` by default. ## msmtp, message mode and multiple accounts |