> > I get a fair amount of email with html code in it. Is there a good way
> > to make show invoke lynx and display these correctly?
>
> Untested, but adding the following line (without the indentation) to
> mhn.defaults (either the system copy or one in your Mail directory) should
> work:
>
> mhshow-show-text/html: %plynx '%F'
I found that mhn-show-text/html: %plynx '%F' at least invokes lynx.
However, lynx just displays the html as if it were plain text. I see
all the tags. Any ideas?
Thanks.
> Much more difficult is getting nmh to invoke Netscape Navigator. You can
> have it just run the executable by replacing "lynx" above with "netscape",
> but this is annoying for people like me who leave a copy of netscape running
> all the time, because the second netscape will complain that certain
> facilities are locked by the first invocation.
>
> You'd like to have the current netscape open the page by doing:
>
> mhshow-show-text/html: %pnetscape -noraise -remote "openFile('%F', new-windo
w)"
>
> but that doesn't work due to the fact that netscape -remote just sends a
> message to the existing netscape then terminates. As soon as it terminates,
> nmh deletes the temp. file that %F names, so unless you're very lucky with
> the timing, the existing netscape will complain that it can't find the file
> you asked it to open.
Ok, thanks, but I don't want to open another window.
> I've been meaning to do something about this for awhile now, by making a new
> %-escape that names a temp file with more permanence, but I haven't gotten
> around to it yet. Another project I haven't had time for is allowing
> customization of the (text/html, text/plain) priority. Most of the HTML
> mail I get is multipart/alternative, and I don't care about the extra
> formatting in the text/html part, so it sucks that nmh always prefers the
> text/html version.
Indeed, I'd prefer the default to be text/plain.
Thanks,
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Eric Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.princeton.edu/~eford/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
