Re: Display html article as plain text

[Jim Burton <jim@sdf-eu.org>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Jim Burton <jim@sdf-eu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi, I want to show html messages as plain text, not using w3m. I gather
>> this is something to do with washing, but not sure how to do it. W h
>> doesn't have the right effect. If possible I'd like to set things up so
>> w3m is never used, but otherwise a command to just show the text would
>> do. How is this done?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Well, you can only show the plain text if it is included in the post.
> Many are not... but also probably most are.
>
>
> When the plain text is available its a matter of telling gnus your
> `prefer' to be shown the plain text... you can also tell gnus to show
> you the buttons for both plain/text and text/html so if you really
> need to see the html rendered you can still double click the button
> and get w3m to render it.
>
> Heres how to do it when the plain text is available
>
> in ~/.gnus
> For the buttons:
> (setq gnus-buttonized-mime-types (quote ("multipart/signed" "multipart/alternative" )))
>
> To discourage rendered html  and show plain text when possible:
> (setq mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display)
>     mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext"))
>

Thanks very much, that's just what I was looking for.

-- 
Jim Burton
jim@sdf-eu.org