From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68298 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Burton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Display html article as plain text Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:07:56 +0000 Message-ID: <874oywmxbn.fsf@sdf-eu.org> References: <87zlgpqgnk.fsf@sdf-eu.org> <87bpt47j4n.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234654047 812 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2009 23:27:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Harry Putnam Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16739@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 15 00:28:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LYTwA-0006ov-Mn for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:28:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LYTuP-000435-Vf; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:26:54 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LYTuO-00042r-Ad for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:26:52 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LYTuL-0008Ok-JM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:26:52 -0600 Original-Received: from queueout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.31]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LYTug-0007Cy-00 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:27:10 +0100 Original-Received: from aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20090214230831.PFYA7670.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:08:31 +0000 Original-Received: from daisy ([81.108.250.25]) by aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vG.2.02.00.01 201-2161-120-102-20060912) with ESMTP id <20090214230831.EBMP2093.aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@daisy>; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:08:31 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87bpt47j4n.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:23:36 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=jlhMHHLU-JsA:10 a=M3_lF8AQAAAA:8 a=faa9z2_RAAAA:8 a=HYxQethyELvKXm-oLXwA:9 a=AMWHyoniKfSS-JcSwUsA:7 a=V-aFp8YMQ9PVqkH3gVdop-ASoysA:4 a=2uiCRmbCp6AA:10 a=nd4EZRjL5cAA:10 a=w16zm4YrGAwA:10 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68298 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > Jim Burton 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