MS Windows: view html email in firefox?

MS Windows: view html email in firefox?

[billw]

Howdy -

I'm using running gnus (Gnus v5.11) under a recent windows emacs (GNU
Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-12-08 on W2ONE) after
spending a hellish year suffering with MS Outlook.

Now that I'm back in gnus, I'm amazed at the increase in html-only
email - stuff without even a text-only alternative.  Is there a way in
this windows setup to view the currently-viewed message in a separate
browser?  (I'm running firefox 1.5)

Meanwhile I'll investigate w3m, but in my linux past I haven't enjoyed
using the elisp browsers.

I'd be happy to provide more information if it would help.

Thanks! (and thanks to gnus for rescuing my sanity)

bw
-- 
Bill White . http://members.wri.com/billw . billw@mchsi.com

Re: MS Windows: view html email in firefox?

[billw]

billw@mchsi.com writes:

> Now that I'm back in gnus, I'm amazed at the increase in html-only
> email - stuff without even a text-only alternative.  Is there a way
> in this windows setup to view the currently-viewed message in a
> separate browser?  (I'm running firefox 1.5)

Here's a magic incantation that displays a text version of the email,
which, of course, is even better than switching to an external
browser.  This may be coming from html2text:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
mm-text-html-renderer is a variable defined in `mm-decode.el'.
Its value is html2text
----------------------------------------------------------------------

auto-show-mime is from this:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
;;; auto-show-mime.el --- Automatically show all mime parts

;; Copyright (C) 2000 by Jonas Steverud
----------------------------------------------------------------------

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;
;; html handling

;; per http://my.gnus.org/faq/html-nochunks/#id2510524
(eval-after-load "mm-decode"
 '(progn 
      (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/html")
      (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/richtext")))

(load-library "auto-show-mime")

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Cheers -

bw
-- 
Bill White . http://members.wri.com/billw . billw@mchsi.com

Re: MS Windows: view html email in firefox?

[Hynek Schlawack]

* billw@mchsi.com wrote:

> Now that I'm back in gnus, I'm amazed at the increase in html-only
> email - stuff without even a text-only alternative.  Is there a way in
> this windows setup to view the currently-viewed message in a separate
> browser?  (I'm running firefox 1.5)

Yes!!! ;)

http://www.ularx.de/elisp/hs-show-html-mail.el - however it's taylored
for Linux so far, but that should concern only the handling of the
tmp-files. That will get more portable in the next days and as I've got
my FSF-assignment today, it should also wander into Gnus soon.

Re: MS Windows: view html email in firefox?

[billw]

On Sat Jan 28 2006 at 06:52, Hynek Schlawack <hynek@ularx.de> said:

> * billw@mchsi.com wrote:
>
>> Now that I'm back in gnus, I'm amazed at the increase in html-only
>> email - stuff without even a text-only alternative.  Is there a way in
>> this windows setup to view the currently-viewed message in a separate
>> browser?  (I'm running firefox 1.5)
>
> Yes!!! ;)
>
> http://www.ularx.de/elisp/hs-show-html-mail.el - however it's
> taylored for Linux so far, but that should concern only the handling
> of the tmp-files. That will get more portable in the next days and
> as I've got my FSF-assignment today, it should also wander into Gnus
> soon.

Cool!  I'm in a rush at the moment but hope to take a close look at it
this weekend.

Many thanks -

bw
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