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From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to get multipart/alternative button to show plain text by default?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:18:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2h9iowncn.fsf@eno.apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ziwib97v.fsf@nemi.mork.no>


on Wed Jan 06 2016, Bjørn Mork <bjorn-AT-mork.no> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> When viewing an article such as this one in Gnus
>> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/2367>, 
>> I really want to see the plain text version of the article by default, 
>> but it very consistently comes through looking like this:
>>
>>   1.  ( ) text/plain          (*) text/html           
>>
>>   <Body of message>
>>
>> I have all the following customizations:
>>
>>  '(gnus-buttonized-mime-types
>>    (quote
>>     ("multipart/alternative")))
>>  '(mm-discouraged-alternatives
>>    (quote
>>     ("text/html" "text/richtext" "image/.*")))
>>  '(mm-inline-large-images
>>    (quote resize))
>>  '(mm-inline-text-html-with-images t)
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> I believe mm-discouraged-alternatives only affects the selection of
> which part to render when *not* buttonizing.  So you should drop the
> gnus-buttonized-mime-types customization.

But sometimes I want to look at the HTML version, and the buttons are a
convenient way to switch back and forth that doesn't require remembering
an obscure key combination or rarely-used command. Can't I have it all?

-Dave







  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-08  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-06 22:37 Dave Abrahams
2016-01-06 22:59 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-01-07  9:51   ` Andreas Schwab
2016-01-06 23:04 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-01-08  7:18   ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2016-01-08 12:19     ` Bjorn Solberg
2016-01-09  7:32     ` Steinar Bang
2016-01-09  9:51       ` Andreas Schwab
2016-01-09 13:28     ` Bjørn Mork
2016-01-18  0:30       ` Dave Abrahams
2016-01-08 12:00 ` Teemu Likonen

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