Re: Prevent nnrss from generating text/plain parts for HTML text

[Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>>>>>> In <87wthiedd8.fsf@stone.tss.usg.edu>
>>>>>>	Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org> wrote:
>
>> nnrss would be better if it did not generate text/plain parts for items
>> that contain HTML.  As-is, when you discourage HTML and an item contains
>> HTML you see the unrendered HTML first.  K v will show you the HTML version
>> but it's extra keystrokes.
>
>> I use the this (from Katsumi :) to discourage HTML:
>
>> (setq gnus-buttonized-mime-types
>>       '("multipart/alternative" "multipart/signed")
>>       mm-discouraged-alternatives
>>       '("text/html" "image/.*"))
>
>> Boing Boing's RSS items (from http://boingboing.net/index.xml) are always
>> HTML so I always have to hit K v to read them.
>
>> I don't know the best way to check for HTML in elisp.  I've attached a
>> patch which uses a regexp to do the job.  The patch works OK for me but I
>> don't think it's ideal.  What's a better way to do this?
>
> How about making those variables group parameters?
>
> (eval-after-load "gnus-sum"
>   '(setq gnus-newsgroup-variables
> 	 (append '((gnus-buttonized-mime-types
> 		    . '("multipart/alternative" "multipart/signed"))
> 		   (mm-discouraged-alternatives
> 		    . '("text/html" "image/.*")))
> 		 gnus-newsgroup-variables)))
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-parameters
> 	     '("\\`nnrss:"
> 	       (gnus-buttonized-mime-types nil)
> 	       (mm-discouraged-alternatives nil)))
>
> I haven't fully tested them yet, though.

This works--thanks!

I wonder whether there's any utility to having a text/plain part when
reading RSS feeds.  There must be but I can't quite imagine it!