From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Allow people to circumvent W3 for HTML
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:39:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluu1wu645w.fsf@barbar.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878ze6hmsz.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> (Daniel Pittman's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:01:48 +1000")
Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Kai Großjohann wrote:
>> I think that many people want to use something like Netscape for
>> viewing HTML, even if Emacs/W3 is installed. IMHO there should be a
>> simple variable which people can set to achieve this.
>>
>> This can be implemented by changing mailcap-mime-data such that it
>> checks the variable, not only looks whether the w3-foo function is
>> bound.
>>
>> Opinions?
>
> Yes, please. Actually, allowing me to easily control what is used to
> render HTML to text would be ideal; I want to pipe it through (for
> example) html2text(1) rather than use W3.
Doesn't
text/html: html2text %s; copiousoutput
or something in ~/.mailcap work?
Hopefully Netscape won't cater to that line.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-20 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-19 13:39 Kai Großjohann
2001-10-19 14:19 ` Oystein Viggen
2001-10-19 15:52 ` Frank Schmitt
2001-10-19 16:24 ` David S. Goldberg
2001-10-19 17:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-19 18:09 ` David S. Goldberg
2001-10-19 21:27 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-20 10:11 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-20 18:30 ` Henrik Enberg
2001-10-21 8:20 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-21 14:25 ` Lloyd Zusman
2001-10-19 16:30 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-21 12:06 ` Oystein Viggen
2001-10-20 6:01 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-10-20 9:39 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2001-10-20 10:55 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-20 11:25 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-10-20 11:47 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-10-20 12:00 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-10-20 18:08 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-21 1:41 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-10-21 8:35 ` Kai Großjohann
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