Re: View HTML Mail in Browser

[Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net>]

hello Adam,

Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:
> Felix writes:
>
>>> What is problem are you trying to solve?
>
>> I would like to open mails using w3m by default,
>> and if I hit K H I would like to open it in the browser:
>
> Ah, ok, I missed the w3m part (shr works better for me), and then got
> confused about what wasn't working for you, sorry!

no problem.

>> There must be some configuration that prevents this for me:
>
> Yes, that is very odd, it works "out of the box" for me.
>
> Oh, wait, how do you start Emacs? I have a vague memory that there might
> still be parts that check for X once, and then never rechecks, meaning
> that you get different behaviour if you start a Emacs as a daemon in the
> background without X, or from an Emacs that starts up with an X window.
>
> Could that be it?

No, I don't do this.

> I.e. to check, stop Emacs completely, start Emacs in X, read an HTML
> email, press K H?

This is what I'm doing.

> If not, my next step would be to M-x edebug-defun on
> gnus-article-browse-html-article and gnus-article-browse-html-parts and
> then step through them and see what happens.
>
> It looks like the latter ends up calling browse-url-of-file, so you
> might want to experiment with that one, to see if it opens Firefox when
> called on a file - if not, then that's a clue.
>
> E.g. if you in a *scratch* buffer evaluate:
>
>   (browse-url-of-file "test.html")

That didn't open anything in the browser.

>
> do you then get a Firefox window trying to open test.html?
>
> If not, is your value of:

Jackpot! I had

(defun browse-url-firefox-new-tab (url &optional new-window)
       "Open URL in a new tab in Firefox."
       (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
       (let ((cmd (shell-command-to-string
                   (concat "/usr/bin/firefox -remote -client -a any 'openURL("
                           url ",new-tab)'"))))
         (unless (string= "" cmd)
           (message "Starting Firefox...")
           (start-process (concat "firefox " url) nil "/usr/bin/firefox" url)
           (message "Starting Firefox...done"))))
(setq browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-firefox-new-tab))

in my ~/.emacs.el.

once I deactivated this:
  (setq browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-firefox))

with this in my .gnus.el:
  (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'shr)

it now renders using shr by default, and when I press K H it renders in
FF (in a new tab) :-)

Many Thanks! Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter