Re: bah, i've had it with html

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On Fri Jul 27 2001 at 04:07, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) said:

    > On 26 Jul 2001, Brian Edmonds wrote:
    > 
>> Many thanks, this works great!  Nothing against w3, which I have
>> used happily for various actual web browsing, I just wince every
>> time it gets started up for a piece of email.
    > 
    > I'm happy with this:
    > 
    > (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/html")
    > 
    > Often, HTML messages have a text/plain alternative.

I've used your line above for quite a while, but I see text/plain
alternatives so rarely nowadays that it's time for something more
powerful.

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?

Cheers -

bw

Footnotes: 
[1] 
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#! /usr/local/bin/perl

$^W = 1;
use strict;
use POSIX   ();
use Fcntl;

my $tmp = POSIX::tmpnam();
while( ! sysopen(F, $tmp, O_WRONLY|O_EXCL|O_CREAT, 0600) ) {
    die "Attempt to open $tmp failed: $!"
        unless $! =~ "File exists";
    $tmp = POSIX::tmpnam();
}

while(<>) {
    print F;
}

close(F)
    or die "Close of $tmp failed: $!";

!system(qw(lynx -dump -force_html), $tmp)
    or die "System failed: $!";

END {
    unlink $tmp if -f $tmp;
}
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