From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39528 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Allow people to circumvent W3 for HTML Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:39:55 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <878ze6hmsz.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175225 28476 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 457 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2001 09:43:20 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 09:43:20 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15usdS-0001n1-00; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 04:41:42 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 20 Oct 2001 04:41:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA19551 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 04:41:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 430 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2001 09:41:23 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 425 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2001 09:41:23 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO dolk.extundo.com) (195.42.214.242) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 09:41:23 -0000 Original-Received: from barbar.josefsson.org (slipsten.extundo.com [195.42.214.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by dolk.extundo.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id f9K9emHB016115; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:40:49 +0200 Original-To: Daniel Pittman In-Reply-To: <878ze6hmsz.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> (Daniel Pittman's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:01:48 +1000") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39528 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39528 Daniel Pittman writes: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Kai Gro=DFjohann 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. >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> Opinions? >=20 > 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.