Re: Never automatically display HTML in an email

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> And thanks for the summary! I stole some
>> config from that (Gnus mime has always been
>> a black box as far as I'm concerned).
>
> Question remains why this should be so
> complicated, especially since a lot of people
> seem to want it. Or is it just the "true
> hacker" audience of this newsgroup?
>
> Anyway, perhaps synthetise into a
>
>     (setq gnus-article-down-with-html t)
>
> ?

Beats me, really. Personally, part of it is that I don't work with
mime-types all that often, and keep forgetting the terminology.
The "Using MIME" and "MIME Commands" sections of the Gnus manual get you
part-way there, but then you fall down the rabbit-hole of the separate
"Emacs MIME" manual, and there goes your Thursday night. I eventually
got mad and hit it with a hammer:

(setq mailcap-mime-data
'(("application" (".*" (viewer . "xdg-open %s")))))

But occasionally that still causes errors and complaints about a lack of
a "text/plain" part or something like that, I'm still too annoyed to go
and figure out what's going on. Attempts to "follow the code" result in
near-instant headaches.

Eric