Re: Gnus not showing article

[Robert Epprecht <epprecht@sunweb.ch>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Robert Epprecht <epprecht@sunweb.ch> writes:
>
>> I'm running actual CVS Gnus in GNU Emacs 20.7.2 on a Linux text console.  
>               ^^^^^^
>               current :-)

Oops, I'm not a native speaker ;-)
Thought you could say that [searching dictionary]... can't you?

>> Quite often when I follow mailinglist discussions I enter an article
>> and see...  nothing.  Why?
>
> Maybe Gnus is trying to display the text/html part but you don't have
> W3 installed?

Yes, that's probably the case.
(My attempt to install W3 failed last time, I'll try again).

I'm a bit confused about W3 and Emacs/W3 (hope I got the names right)
Which one do I want for the text console and GNU Emacs 20.7?

>  Hm.  What happens when you hit `K b' on the message?
> Can you then click on the other alternative and have that shown?

Yes, that works fine, thank you.

When I select the alternative I get 
'Displaying gnome-help-browser '/tmp/emm.2663yF/mm.266E9L'...'
Looks as if my (Debian) installation is broken somehow, as I do
not use Gnome (but had tried it once).

> It might also help to say
>
>     (require 'mm-decode)
>     (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/html")

Yes, that works.

> But I think that Gnus should do something useful even without this.

Thank you for your help.
Robert Epprecht