On Wed 30 Oct 2019 12:57,
martin f krafft <madd...@madduck.net> put forth the proposition:
> Regarding the following, written by "Martin Trautmann" on 2019-10-30 at 00:14
> Uhr +0100:
> > That's such a strange thing.
> > […]
> > since they never learned, how proper threading and quoting could have
> > worked?
>
> 78 characters wide text/plain is just not the lowest common denominator
> anymore. I am not going to sing an ode to HTML email, but being able to use
> Markdown to create more expressive emails than using ASCII art is not
> something I find utterly offensive.
>
> If you want someone to blame, shake your fist at Microsoft (for forcing HTML
> into email), and Google (for actively breaking threading and quoting rules).
> That said, Gmail is far easier to use if you want to refer back to content
> written earlier in a thread than mutt, where you either have to save a
> draft, or open a second instance, find the thread, and navigate around
> messages, or use clunky search.
>
> Society has moved on, and we all risk sounding like grumpy old folks
> reminiscing at the times when everyone knew what netiquette was if we don't
> embrace the progress that's been happening around us. And text/html is part
> of that progress, whether you like it or not.
>
> If we don't embrace progress, then mutt will not have any users in a decade
> or two.
I don't think embracing wrong email practices is the way forward. If
I really needed HTML support then I'd use something like claws-mail,
and not change mutt to support it.
Most of my correspondence is with other *nix users though, who mostly
do it right.
For everyone else I press 'z'.
macro pager,index,attach z ":unauto_view
text/html<enter>|~/.mutt/elinks<enter>:auto_view
text/html<enter>"
--
Q: How many journalists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Three. One to report it as an inspired government program to bring
light to the people, one to report it as a diabolical government
plot to deprive the poor of darkness, and one to win a pulitzer
prize for reporting that Electric Company hired a lightbulb
assassin to break the bulb in the first place.
#!/bin/sh
TMPFILE="/tmp/mutt-elinks.html"
cat /dev/stdin | sed "s,$,<br>,g" > "$TMPFILE"
elinks -force-html "$TMPFILE"
