Re: Viewing both text and image
This also works, using ee as the client to view graphic images: Mailcap entries image/gif; ~/bin/spawn ee %s image/jpg; ~/bin/spawn ee %s image/jpeg; ~/bin/spawn ee %s ~/bin/spawn is the following script: #!/bin/sh cp $2 $2.tmp ($1 $2.tmp;rm -f $2.tmp) John On 07/15/02 14:25 -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:41:57PM -0700, Jim Osborn wrote: I'm on a list where most of the traffic consists of a paragraph or two of text and an accompanying chart as an image attachment. I really need to be able to see the image as I read the text, and it'd be nice to be able to do that within Mutt. I haven't figured out how to get the image to xv without going into the ``v'' attachment menu, which hides the text part of the mail.
Re: Viewing both text and image
* On 2002.07.15, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], * Jim Osborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to be able to do that within Mutt. I haven't figured out how to get the image to xv without going into the ``v'' attachment menu, which hides the text part of the mail. I'll assume that the other postings describing how to run a viewer asynchronously work well. To make this happen without entering the attachments menu, you'll also need to set an autoview for the image type you're dealing with: auto_view image/jpeg for example. However, that will make mutt view all JPEGs automatically -- not necessarily what you want. You could try tricks with message-hooks -- for example: message-hook . unauto_view image/jpeg message-hook ~f list auto_view image/jpeg Or you could set up a macro that does auto_view, then displays the message, then unauto_views. This won't have the overhead of executing hooks for every message you read, but it would require you to recall and use a different keystroke. Or you could play with changing the MIME type of the image, either through procmail or using (again) message-hooks. This would allow you to get what you want on these messages particularly, without necessarily running the image viewer asynchronously on other message with JPEG attachments. As usual, there are arguable advantages to any approach. -- -D.Fresh fruit enriches everyone. Takes the thirst ENSA, NSIT out of everyday time. A pure whiff of oxygen, University of Chicago painting over a monochrome world in primary colors. [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know that. It's why everyone loves fruit.
Viewing both text and image
I'm on a list where most of the traffic consists of a paragraph or two of text and an accompanying chart as an image attachment. I really need to be able to see the image as I read the text, and it'd be nice to be able to do that within Mutt. I haven't figured out how to get the image to xv without going into the ``v'' attachment menu, which hides the text part of the mail. Is there a way to view two attachments simultaneously, or some other trick to do this job? I tried tagging both the text and the image in the attachment menu and doing ;enter but that only selected the one attachment with the cursor on it. TIA, Jim
Re: Viewing both text and image
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:41:57PM -0700, Jim Osborn wrote: I'm on a list where most of the traffic consists of a paragraph or two of text and an accompanying chart as an image attachment. I really need to be able to see the image as I read the text, and it'd be nice to be able to do that within Mutt. I haven't figured out how to get the image to xv without going into the ``v'' attachment menu, which hides the text part of the mail. The way I handle this is to use a mailcap entry for image/* that runs xv in the background. Then I can launch xv from the attachment menu and immediately return to reading the message text while still viewing the image. Here's my mailcap entry: image/*; mutt_bgrun xv %s; test=RunningX A simpler approach would be to just use something like this: image/*; xv %s sleep 5 where the sleep time is set to give xv enough time to load the image before mutt overwrites it. You can get mutt_bgrun from my web page, http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/mutt_bgrun HTH, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Spokane, Washington, USA http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ |
