defining external http viewer for GNUS

defining external http viewer for GNUS

[Rainer M. Krug]

Hi

I would like to use an external viewer (conqueror) to view html emails from time to
time, but I would not like to change my emacs default viewer (x-www-browser). Is there a
way of defining one (conqueror in my case) only for gnus?

Thanks,

Rainer

PS: the more I use gnus (my fourth day now), the more I like it

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Re: defining external http viewer for GNUS

[Tassilo Horn]

Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:

Hi Rainer,

> I would like to use an external viewer (conqueror) to view html emails
> from time to time, but I would not like to change my emacs default
> viewer (x-www-browser). Is there a way of defining one (conqueror in
> my case) only for gnus?

Is this what you are looking for?

,----[ C-h k K H ]
| gnus-article-browse-html-article is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
| `gnus-art.el'.
| 
| (gnus-article-browse-html-article &optional ARG)
| 
| View "text/html" parts of the current article with a WWW browser.
| Inline images embedded in a message using the cid scheme, as they are
| generally considered to be safe, will be processed properly.
| The message header is added to the beginning of every html part unless
| the prefix argument ARG is given.
| 
| Warning: Spammers use links to images (using the http scheme) in HTML
| articles to verify whether you have read the message.  As
| `gnus-article-browse-html-article' passes the HTML content to the
| browser without eliminating these "web bugs" you should only
| use it for mails from trusted senders.
| 
| If you always want to display HTML parts in the browser, set
| `mm-text-html-renderer' to nil.
| 
| This command creates temporary files to pass HTML contents including
| images if any to the browser, and deletes them when exiting the group
| (if you want).
`----

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: defining external http viewer for GNUS

[Rainer M. Krug]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:
>
> Hi Rainer,
>
>> I would like to use an external viewer (conqueror) to view html emails
>> from time to time, but I would not like to change my emacs default
>> viewer (x-www-browser). Is there a way of defining one (conqueror in
>> my case) only for gnus?
>
> Is this what you are looking for?

Not exactly. I can open the article in an external viewer, but it is
always the external viewer as defined in emacs. I use

(setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
browse-url-generic-program "x-www-browser")

to define my external browser and I only would like to be able to open
html mails in a different browser (conqueror or dillo) as this will be
uch faster them chromium which is my normal x-www-browser (and I want to
keep chromium for normal browsing).

Thanks,

Rainer

>
> ,----[ C-h k K H ]
> | gnus-article-browse-html-article is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> | `gnus-art.el'.
> | 
> | (gnus-article-browse-html-article &optional ARG)
> | 
> | View "text/html" parts of the current article with a WWW browser.
> | Inline images embedded in a message using the cid scheme, as they are
> | generally considered to be safe, will be processed properly.
> | The message header is added to the beginning of every html part unless
> | the prefix argument ARG is given.
> | 
> | Warning: Spammers use links to images (using the http scheme) in HTML
> | articles to verify whether you have read the message.  As
> | `gnus-article-browse-html-article' passes the HTML content to the
> | browser without eliminating these "web bugs" you should only
> | use it for mails from trusted senders.
> | 
> | If you always want to display HTML parts in the browser, set
> | `mm-text-html-renderer' to nil.
> | 
> | This command creates temporary files to pass HTML contents including
> | images if any to the browser, and deletes them when exiting the group
> | (if you want).
> `----
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
>
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Re: defining external http viewer for GNUS

[Tassilo Horn]

Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:

Hi Rainer,

>> Is this what you are looking for?
>
> Not exactly. I can open the article in an external viewer, but it is
> always the external viewer as defined in emacs. I use
>
> (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
>       browse-url-generic-program "x-www-browser")
>
> to define my external browser and I only would like to be able to open
> html mails in a different browser (conqueror or dillo) as this will be
> uch faster them chromium which is my normal x-www-browser (and I want
> to keep chromium for normal browsing).

Ok, I see.  I think this should do the trick (untested):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-to-list 'mm-text-html-renderer-alist
	     '(conqueror mm-inline-render-with-file
			 nil "conqueror" file))
(setq mm-text-html-renderer 'conqueror)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Then, `K H' should open conqueror with the mail.

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: defining external http viewer for GNUS

[Rainer M. Krug]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:
>
> Hi Rainer,
>
>>> Is this what you are looking for?
>>
>> Not exactly. I can open the article in an external viewer, but it is
>> always the external viewer as defined in emacs. I use
>>
>> (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
>>       browse-url-generic-program "x-www-browser")
>>
>> to define my external browser and I only would like to be able to open
>> html mails in a different browser (conqueror or dillo) as this will be
>> uch faster them chromium which is my normal x-www-browser (and I want
>> to keep chromium for normal browsing).
>
> Ok, I see.  I think this should do the trick (untested):
>
> (add-to-list 'mm-text-html-renderer-alist
> 	     '(conqueror mm-inline-render-with-file
> 			 nil "conqueror" file))
> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'conqueror)
>
> Then, `K H' should open conqueror with the mail.

Thanks a lot - we are getting somwhere - the message is opened in conkeror (spelling error
in my original email), but always. Which makes sense, as
mm-text-html-renderer specifies how html emails should be rendered.

I would very much prefer the K H approach, where the mai is displayed in
emacs, and that I can open it in the external renderer (conkeror).

Cheers,

Rainer



>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
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Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
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email:      Rainer@krugs.de

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Re: defining external http viewer for GNUS

[Tassilo Horn]

Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:

>> Ok, I see.  I think this should do the trick (untested):
>>
>> (add-to-list 'mm-text-html-renderer-alist
>> 	     '(conqueror mm-inline-render-with-file
>> 			 nil "conqueror" file))
>> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'conqueror)
>>
>> Then, `K H' should open conqueror with the mail.
>
> Thanks a lot - we are getting somwhere - the message is opened in
> conkeror (spelling error in my original email), but always. Which
> makes sense, as mm-text-html-renderer specifies how html emails should
> be rendered.

Ah, right.

> I would very much prefer the K H approach, where the mai is displayed
> in emacs, and that I can open it in the external renderer (conkeror).

Ok, next try.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-to-list 'mm-text-html-renderer-alist
	     '(conkeror mm-inline-render-with-file
			nil "conkeror" file))

(defun rainers-gnus-article-browse-html-article (&optional arg)
  "Like `gnus-article-browse-html-article', but open the mail
with conkeror instead of the default web browser."
  (interactive "P")
  (let ((mm-text-html-renderer 'conkeror))
    (gnus-article-browse-html-article arg)))

(gnus-define-keys (gnus-summary-mime-map "K" gnus-summary-mode-map)
  "H" rainers-gnus-article-browse-html-article)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I've tried it, but when I hit `K H' the mail is opened in my default
browser (chromium) instead of conkeror (I actually replaced conkeror
with firefox above, because I don't have conkeror installed).

What's strange is that `mm-inline-render-with-file' is never called.  I
wanted to edebug it, but when I do `K H' I'm not put into the edebugger.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: defining external http viewer for GNUS

[Rainer M. Krug]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:
>
>>> Ok, I see.  I think this should do the trick (untested):
>>>
>>> (add-to-list 'mm-text-html-renderer-alist
>>> 	     '(conqueror mm-inline-render-with-file
>>> 			 nil "conqueror" file))
>>> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'conqueror)
>>>
>>> Then, `K H' should open conqueror with the mail.
>>
>> Thanks a lot - we are getting somwhere - the message is opened in
>> conkeror (spelling error in my original email), but always. Which
>> makes sense, as mm-text-html-renderer specifies how html emails should
>> be rendered.
>
> Ah, right.
>
>> I would very much prefer the K H approach, where the mai is displayed
>> in emacs, and that I can open it in the external renderer (conkeror).
>
> Ok, next try.
>
> (add-to-list 'mm-text-html-renderer-alist
> 	     '(conkeror mm-inline-render-with-file
> 			nil "conkeror" file))
>
> (defun rainers-gnus-article-browse-html-article (&optional arg)
>   "Like `gnus-article-browse-html-article', but open the mail
> with conkeror instead of the default web browser."
>   (interactive "P")
>   (let ((mm-text-html-renderer 'conkeror))
>     (gnus-article-browse-html-article arg)))
>
> (gnus-define-keys (gnus-summary-mime-map "K" gnus-summary-mode-map)
>   "H" rainers-gnus-article-browse-html-article)
>
> I've tried it, but when I hit `K H' the mail is opened in my default
> browser (chromium) instead of conkeror (I actually replaced conkeror
> with firefox above, because I don't have conkeror installed).
>
> What's strange is that `mm-inline-render-with-file' is never called.  I
> wanted to edebug it, but when I do `K H' I'm not put into the edebugger.
> I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...

If I use your code, the mail is opened in conkerer, but emacs is
unresponsive, and when I close conkeror, the message is opened again in
my default browser and again in conkeror - strange.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Bye,
> Tassilo


-- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

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