"Peter P." <peterpar...@fastmail.com> writes: > * Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it> [2015-04-28 12:47]: >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Peter P. wrote: >> > Dear fellow mutt users, >> > >> > Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser >> > window? >> >> Hello Peter, >> once opened the message, press 'v' (view-attachments) and then >> select the .html one and press <enter>, that should auto-invoke >> x-www-browser. > Thanks Francesco, > That way the message gets displayed inside mutt using w3m. In my .muttrc I > have set > auto_view text/html application/x-pgp-message > and > text/html; /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput; > description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html > as the corresponding mailcap entry. > I wonder if I could pipe the html message part to the browser. The way I > did it, typing "|" and specifying firefox as the program to pipe it to, > did not really render it nicely.
You can definitely do this, but I suspect most browsers are not designed to accept input from stdin (a pipe). You can write a script to save the HTML part in a temp file, and then display that in the browser. There are actually a number of such scripts around if you Google it. -pd -- ---- Peter Davis The Tech Curmudgeon www.techcurmudgeon.com
