anything newer than emacs-w3m for rendering html

anything newer than emacs-w3m for rendering html

[Harry Putnam]

Is there a more recent or better way to render html messages than
emacs-w3m?

Near as I can tell, the last release was 10 yrs ago.

Even w3m itself dates back to 2011.

Re: anything newer than emacs-w3m for rendering html

[Adam Sjøgren]

Harry writes:

> Is there a more recent or better way to render html messages than
> emacs-w3m?

The default has been shr the last couple (?) of years:

,----[ C-h v mm-text-html-renderer RET ]
| mm-text-html-renderer is a variable defined in `mm-decode.el'.
| Its value is shr
| 
| Documentation:
| Render of HTML contents.
| It is one of defined renderer types, or a rendering function.
| The defined renderer types are:
| `shr': use the built-in Gnus HTML renderer;
| `gnus-w3m': use Gnus renderer based on w3m;
| `w3m': use emacs-w3m;
| `w3m-standalone': use plain w3m;
| `links': use links;
| `lynx': use lynx;
| `html2text': use html2text;
| nil    : use external viewer (default web browser).
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
| version 24.1 of Emacs.
`----

shr is available as a stand-alone browser using M-x eww


  Best regards,

    Adam

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 "Subdued flamboyance"                                        Adam Sjøgren
                                                         asjo@koldfront.dk

Re: anything newer than emacs-w3m for rendering html

[Malcolm Purvis]

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

Adam> The default has been shr the last couple (?) of years:

I'll second this.

I recently switched from emacs-w3m to shr and I've found it a much
better renderer.

Malcolm

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	       Malcolm Purvis <malcolm@purvis.id.au>

Re: anything newer than emacs-w3m for rendering html

[Harry Putnam]

Malcolm Purvis <malcolm@purvis.id.au> writes:

>>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:
>
> Adam> The default has been shr the last couple (?) of years:
>
> I'll second this.
>
> I recently switched from emacs-w3m to shr and I've found it a much
> better renderer.

Good to hear.   Did it require any special lisp in gnus.el?

Re: anything newer than emacs-w3m for rendering html

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>:

> Good to hear.   Did it require any special lisp in gnus.el?

Don't know, but it does require libxml2.so (libxml2.dll on Windows) to
be linked into Gnus at runtime.

Re: anything newer than emacs-w3m for rendering html

[Malcolm Purvis]

>>>>> "Harry" == Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

Harry> Malcolm Purvis <malcolm@purvis.id.au> writes:

>> I recently switched from emacs-w3m to shr and I've found it a much
>> better renderer.

Harry> Good to hear.  Did it require any special lisp in gnus.el?


No. Since it's the default all I had to do was remove the line which set
mm-text-html-renderer to 'w3m.

Malcolm

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		     Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp@xemacs.org>

Re: anything newer than emacs-w3m for rendering html

[Filipp Gunbin]

On 18/12/2014 16:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Is there a more recent or better way to render html messages than
> emacs-w3m?
>
> Near as I can tell, the last release was 10 yrs ago.
>
> Even w3m itself dates back to 2011.

You can check out and install emacs-w3m from cvs, see [1].  It is
well-maintained.  And it's great! :)

[1] http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/#download

Re: anything newer than emacs-w3m for rendering html

[Harry Putnam]

Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm> writes:

> On 18/12/2014 16:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Is there a more recent or better way to render html messages than
>> emacs-w3m?
>>
>> Near as I can tell, the last release was 10 yrs ago.
>>
>> Even w3m itself dates back to 2011.
>
> You can check out and install emacs-w3m from cvs, see [1].  It is
> well-maintained.  And it's great! :)

Not sure what you mean by `well maintainted'.. The page you cite
appears to say the most recent version was released in 2005.  No new
versions since then.

Re: anything newer than emacs-w3m for rendering html

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Not sure what you mean by `well maintainted'.. The page you cite
> appears to say the most recent version was released in 2005.  No new
> versions since then.

emacs-w3m no longer does "releases", but it's actively maintained.  You
just have to pull it down via CVS.

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