Re: Display html article as plain text

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

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"))