Re: How to do something a bit complicated with inline decoding?

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> The problem I'm trying to solve, however, has more to do with mime
>> part encoding, not with non-graphic html reformatting itself.  What
>> I'm trying to do is to decode a mime part and then have the decoded
>> text appear in the buffer a way that replaces the original mime part,
>> so I can then do a reply or a followup and have the quoted text in the
>> message buffer be the decoded text from the mime part.
>
> Well, w3m.el does what you want by invoking w3m.  I'm sure you can
> learn something from looking at its code; you'll just need to do like
> w3m.el, except that you invoke your own program.

Yes, indeed.

It turns out that w3m seems to require mule, and I don't use that.
This leaves out w3m as an alternative for me.  But as you pointed out,
I can of course always look at the w3m.el code to get examples of what
I want to do in terms of decoding message parts.

So is there really no Gnus function that decodes a message part and
replaces the part with the decoded version?  (as opposed to decoding
the part and simply displaying it without modifying the message
buffer?)



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 Lloyd Zusman
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