Re: gnus tries to run w3m

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

  > On Mon, Jan 23 2006, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > 
  > > Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:
  > [...]
  > >   > ,----[ (info "(gnus)[4.6]") ]
  > >   > | Question 4.6
  > >   > | 
  > >   > | I'd like Gnus NOT to render HTML-mails but show me the text part if
  > >   > | it's available. How to do it?
  > >   > `----
  > >
  > > The problem is that I use the default value for
  > > mm-discouraged-alternatives (wich is also the value indicated in the
  > > above FAQ entry), so Gnus should not try to render HTML...
  > 
  > The default value is nil (see mm-decode.el), but the FAQ entry
  > suggests to add "text/html" and "text/richtext".
  > 
  > Maybe you misinterpreted the text ``[...] then the value of this
  > variable should be set to: ("text/html" "text/richtext")'' in the doc
  > string as the default value?

Yep, you are right. I shouldn't have been looking at that so late at
night, sorry... 

Is this something new(ish)? I had the impression that by default Gnus
would display by default the text/plain alternative iff a message
contained text/plain and text/html alternatives.