htmlified mail - a simple lisp "solution"

htmlified mail - a simple lisp "solution"

[Joakim Hove]

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Hello,

I have written a very simple solution to convert html formatted mails
to pure text, presevering *some* of the markup. It does of course not
handle general html, but the readability of the typical eudora mail I
receive is greatly enhanced. 

It works by modifying the buffer content, not the actual message, so
by pressing "g" you will get back the original view. [Might be a wise
thing to do before you take any serious action based on the output
from this program!]

Usage:
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1. Load the file (with autoload or manually)
2. When you get one of these htmlified mails, type M-x html2text.
3. It is quite simple to alter the behaviour by providing new
   functions, and modifying the lists of tags to react upon.

Changes and modifications are most welcome - Joakim Hove


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Re: htmlified mail - a simple lisp "solution"

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Joakim Hove <Joakim.Hove@phys.ntnu.no> writes:

> I have written a very simple solution to convert html formatted mails
> to pure text, presevering *some* of the markup. It does of course not
> handle general html, but the readability of the typical eudora mail I
> receive is greatly enhanced. 

This seems like an interesting approach for those who haven't
installed w3, or those <adjective> people who don't want to use it to
display messages in Gnus.

Do you have a newer version of this now, and would you be interested
in including this in Gnus, and would you sign FSF copyright assignment
papers?  :-)

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: htmlified mail - a simple lisp "solution"

[Joakim Hove]

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > I have written a very simple solution to convert html formatted mails
> > to pure text, presevering *some* of the markup. It does of course not
> > handle general html, but the readability of the typical eudora mail I
> > receive is greatly enhanced. 
> 
> This seems like an interesting approach for those who haven't
> installed w3, or those <adjective> people who don't want to use it to
> display messages in Gnus.
> 
> Do you have a newer version of this now, and would you be interested
> in including this in Gnus, and would you sign FSF copyright assignment
> papers?  :-)

Yes,

I have a *slightly* newer version - included below. As already
mentioned it works quite nicely on mail which contain some visual
html-markup, but nowadays I regularly receive ordinary web pages
written in MS Frontpage as mail, needless to say that my simple
solution fails on that.

I would be more than willing to include this in Gnus, and sign FSF
copyright assignment papers.

Regards - Joakim


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|| N - 7491 Trondheim    hove@phys.ntnu.no     |  N - 7030 Trondheim ||
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