Re: bah, i've had it with html

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On Fri Jul 27 2001 at 09:07, Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com> said:

>> When I receive an html-only message, I edit the article (`e' in the
>> summary buffer), then select all the html code and run an
>> html2text[1] script on it (`C-u M-| html2text'), then, of course,
>> finish up with `C-c C-c'.  Is there some way to automate that for
>> these stupid html-only nnml messages?
    > 
    > Perhaps you can convince Gnus to use mailcap.  Some potential
    > mailcap entries:

A-ha.  (require 'mailcap)!

    >   text/html; /usr/bin/html2text '%s'; copiousoutput
    > 
    > mm-display part seems to handle this properly (when w3 *isn't*
    > installed, anyway); see my other post in this thread.
    > 
    > This seems more elegant that putting text/html-specific code in Gnus.

Excellent - the perfect solution for me.  I control when it happens,
and it works in one very well-defined area.

Thanks!

bw
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