Re: emacs-w3m

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Emacs-w3m is yet another web browser for Emacsen.  It is light
> and fast for rendering html contents, because it uses the
> external command w3m.  Emacs-w3m can also show images inline
> under XEmacs or Emacs 21+.  Why don't we use emacs-w3m for
> converting text/html parts on Gnus?  I wish to install the
> attached patch to Gnus CVS by myself.  Do you have any
> objections?

Some stylistic comments, but no real objection -- it would be great to
see better support for multiple rendering engines.

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> 2002-01-24  Katsumi Yamaoka  <yamaoka@jpl.org>
> 
> 	* mm-decode.el (mm-inline-text-use-emacs-w3m): New user option.

Would it be possible to create `mm-inline-text-html-renderer' or
similar, which took a function to call passing the MIME handle, etc?

That way you could define `...-render-with-w3', `...-render-with-w3m'
and also any other HTML rendering solution that became desirable.

> 	 (mm-inline-media-tests): Check for w3m instead of w3 if
> 	`mm-inline-text-use-emacs-w3m' is non-nil.

You could set the default value for the above variable to the w3 version
if it's found, or w3m next.

        Daniel

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