Re: Using `links' to process HTML

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com> writes:

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>
> I've been using this for some time now and want to share it with
> others.  It hooks into the processing of "text/html" and renders it by
> noninteractively calling the textual browser `links'.  Although this
> doesn't support images, colors, forms and whatnot, those are the
> things I turn off anyway.  It does support tables, however.
>
> Overall it does a much better job of rendering HTML than w3 does.  My
> spams finally come out right before I ignore them.
>
> Here is what I put in `.gnus'.  It relies on the program `links' being
> somewhere on the PATH.  If you try it, please let me know if it works
> for you.

Inspired by the code, I added a new feature which enables users to
choose w3, w3m, links or lynx to render HTML parts. For example,

     (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'links)

(I don't have links installed. Please test.)

This variable can be overridden if mm-inline-text-html-renderer is
set. Also, gnus-article-wash-html uses this variable too.

If anyone knows some external commands to render html or other MIME
type, please post the solutions. Something like html2txt or word2txt.

ShengHuo