>Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> writes: >hose things all look good. I assume that you don't have any >>mhshow-show-text/html entries in .mh_profile. So, let me ask again .... >>what exactly is not working with mhshow? > >Here is first problem. The body of some Emails consist of just HTML stuff or >perhaps an introductory line, followed by HTML. Rendering the HTML as text, >via (I guess) w3m, is pretty pale compared to viewing it via a browser.
I have, personally, been pretty happy with the output generated by w3m on text/html parts; it's readable, at least. Unfortunately, we're just up against limits in the display medium. We could distribute entries like: mhshow-show-image/jpeg: jpegtopnm | ppmtoascii But should we? As a default, probably not. So is putting text/html through w3m going to be as good as Chrome or Firefox? Well, no ... that's just not going to happen. I think it's still miles better than it was. >So I ask: Is there an argument, I could give to show, that would emulate the >existence of a .mh_profile entry like: > > mhshow-show-text/html: %pmhshowHelper '%d' '%s' '%f' I've thought about the syntax for this, but it ends up being hard (also, you have to pass it down a lot of functions). You can set the MHSHOW environment variable, so if you had a file "helper.mhshow" that contained: mhshow-show-text/html: %pmhshowHelper '%d' '%s' '%f' you could do: MHSHOW=helper.mhshow mhshow 100 or whatever. >Second thought: After installing w3m and elinks, should I have rebuilt and >reinstalled nmh? If there aren't any appropriate entries in mhn.defaults, you can simply remove etc/mhn.defaults from the build tree, then make && make install. >Third thought: I've been thinking about my initial assertion that the original >MH was used by completely novice secretaries. That's true, but it was an >unfair comparison to today. Those secretaries were not sitting alone at home >with a PC. They were in a office, within a few feet of more experienceg users, >and often, within a few feet of relative experts. Yeah, that makes it different, doesn't it? Also, that was in a pre-MIME world. I've thought about the nmh target audience ... I guess my thinking is the ideal nmh user be programmers who want a flexible MUA that can make use of many of the features of the Unix command line. I'd still like a user be able to walk up to a nmh installation and the basic commands be useful without any configuration, though. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
