On Friday Feb 07 2014, doa379 <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using the function defined here:
>
>     ;;; message view action
>     (defun mu4e-msgv-action-view-in-browser (msg)
>       "View the body of the message in a web browser."
>       (interactive)
>       (let ((html (mu4e-msg-field (mu4e-message-at-point t) :body-html))
>             (tmpfile (format "%s/%d.html" temporary-file-directory (random))))
>         (unless html (error "No html part for this message"))
>         (with-temp-file tmpfile
>         (insert
>             "<html>"
>             "<head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\""
>             "content=\"text/html;charset=UTF-8\">"
>            html))
>         (browse-url (concat "file://" tmpfile))))
>     (add-to-list 'mu4e-view-actions
>       '("View in browser" . mu4e-msgv-action-view-in-browser) t)
>
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/mu4e

EmacsWiki is quite useful, but sadly also contains a lot of outdated
information; provided your using a fairly recent mu4e version, there's
actually a pre-cooked version of this as part of mu4e (and it's
described in the manual).

> Unfortunately, how do I invoke it? Is this function bound by the key 
> binding '.'? If I do this the email reloads in it's raw HTML glory as plain 
> text in the active emacs buffer.

(add-to-list 'mu4e-view-actions
  '("ViewBrowser" . mu4e-action-view-in-browser) t)

and set `browse-url-generic-program' to your favorite browser.

Cheers,
Dirk.
 

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