Re: start of art

[david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg)]

>>> Regarding Re: start of art; Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> adds:
>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
Ted> Oh, I didn't realize Uwe was looking at the
Ted> text-plain content.  Never mind.
>>> 
>>> What is the state of art of the problem? 

>> The message is a multipart/alternative message.  You seem to be looking
>> at the text/plain version, possibly because you have discouraged HTML
>> via `mm-discouraged-alternatives', or you don't have a HTML renderer
> the value of this variable is 
> Value: ("text/html" "text/richtext" "text/enriched" "multipart/related" "image/.*")
>> (like w3m) installed.
> W3m is intalled!


> So what shall I do (I already told the gmail user to
> activate the plain text option but I don't consider this as
> a optimal solution)

Stop discouraging html?  The default for mm-discouraged-alternatives appears to be nil so you've customized it.  If you have a reason for doing so for most articles but prefer to see the html rendered on occasion you can set gnus-mime-display-multipart-alternative-as-mixed to t, which results in the article giving you buttons to switch between the alternatives; or you can just set gnus-inhibit-mime-unbuttonizing to t so you never miss a part, which is my preference.  If you do one of those and keep your setting for discouraging html, the text/plain should be shown by default, at least that's how I remember it working.  I no longer discourage html.  At work I ended up having to either switch to it or run K-H to show it in a browser for nearly every message.  But I don't want to start anothe
 r discussion of like the one going on in the top posting thread (I have to deal with that one at work too - my solution is similar to Ted's).


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Dave Goldberg
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