Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:43:34PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:53:20PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Mark H. Wood: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:28:05AM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that mutt

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-28 Thread Andre Klärner
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:38:14AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:43:34PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: The point is to make Mutt wait to remove the file until some time after your browser is actually displaying it. Any time after that, Mutt can be allowed to continue.

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-27 Thread David Champion
* On 25 Jan 2013, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: I see you posted an email about this back on December 19th too. Although I thought Patrick Shanahan explained it clearly then, and just now Mark H. Wood did again, I'll take a shot and try to (even) more verbosely explain what is going on and why

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Champion: It should be on the wiki. Thanks for reminding me about the wiki. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) :(){ :|: };: - -

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-26 Thread Alan McConnell
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:10:16PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: Alan McConnell wrote: Re Race Conditions. Unless I am mistaken, mutt is written as a single, un-threaded process; I believe that 'me' is (justly) proud of this achievement. So I do not understand how two processes can be

Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread Alan McConnell
Assembled Wisdom! First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that mutt relies on two config files, .muttrc and .mailcap. Perhaps one of the experts could give us a short exposition of the use of each of these files, and what to do when they conflict. That would help me get my

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:28:05AM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that mutt relies on two config files, .muttrc and .mailcap. Perhaps one of the experts could give us a short exposition of the use of each of these files, and what to do

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread Marco Giusti
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:26:11PM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: [cut] Second(personal issue): I'm still having problems with getting my html-mail to open(in a new tab) in my browser, which is Firefox(Debianers call it iceweasel). Often, when I use 'v' on an entry in my mutt display, and

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mark H. Wood: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:28:05AM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that mutt relies on two config files, .muttrc and .mailcap. Perhaps .mailcap is a general-purpose configuration file for anything that wants

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread Alan McConnell
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:53:20PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Mark H. Wood: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:28:05AM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that mutt relies on two config files, .muttrc and .mailcap. Perhaps

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
Alan McConnell wrote: Re Race Conditions. Unless I am mistaken, mutt is written as a single, un-threaded process; I believe that 'me' is (justly) proud of this achievement. So I do not understand how two processes can be involved here. I see you posted an email about this back on December

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alan McConnell: sigh My iceweasel(aka Firefox) runs, and displays in the middle of my screen, from the moment my computer is turned Just a suggestion ... isolate the problem. Swap out firefox. In my ~/mutt/mailcap: text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html