emacs user writes: > hello, Reading html mail using vm/w3m works pretty well for me most of the > time, but occasionally I do want to use an external browser to view a > message. Pressing D and then $e on the attachment button then works well, > except that the D step takes a very long time and I was wondering if > that's just my setup...?
I have this problem too. I have it on my to-do list to investigate it. One guess is is that u-vm-color doesn't handle attachments well. You might try turning it off and seeing if it makes a difference. A possible idea here is to *always* display buttons for non-text/plain parts, so that we can easily fire up external viewers. I will put it on the wishlist. > also, could anyone suggest how I might: (1) > define a function that displays a given message using an external browser, > so that I can bind it to some key; (2) is it possible to view every > message both in the presentation buffer and in an external browser, > simultaneously, side by side? on a large monitor this may be a great > option to have...? cheers, E There is no built-in function to display a message in an external viewer. One has to get the button view first (using `D') and then do ']' and '$e'. You can try making a keyboard macro for it if it is needed often. Viewing the message in both VM and external browser is easy if it is a multipart/alternative message. Just set `vm-mime-multipart-show-method' to `all' and use the external browser for html. You get the plain text version shown in VM and the html version shown externally. If it is not a multipart/alternative message and the message has just one text/html part, then there is currently no way to feed it to an external viewer while also displaying it in VM. Cheers, Uday
