On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:40:31AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > I'm trying to use emacs as an alternative pager for mutt. Specifically, I'd > like to use the gnus Article mode to display articles. I've > tried just setting emacsclient as the pager, but I have some questions: > > 1) What exactly is passed to the pager? From my experiments, it appears the > message is pre-formatted before passing it to the pager. That > prevents me from latting the pager format it, so I'd like to avoid this. I > tried moving my .mailcap file, but I'm still seeing already > formatted messages. Is there any way to get mutt to send the whole raw > message to the pager?
As far as I know, the message is passed in via stdin. Emacs does not have the capability to read and display this as a buffer. The only way to use emacs as a pager is to write to a temp file and then open that in Emacs. You have to achieve this from a custom script. Hope this helps, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
