Hi Kyle, Thanks for the quick reply.
Please see my comments below. On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:27 PM PDT, Mun Johl wrote: > On Tuesday, August 5 at 09:51 PM, quoth Mun Johl: >> I've been using w3m to render HTML messages within my mutt window for >> quite a while. My HTML mailcap entries are as follows: >> >> text/html;$HOME/bin/mutt_opera %s text/html; w3m -dump %s; >> nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput > > Looks good. > >> However, I've noticed that if I view an HTML file outside of mutt by >> executing "w3m <filename>" within the same terminal type (mrxvt) that >> the HTML file is rendered much better and the hyperlinks work. >> >> Is there a configuration that will allow me to get the same type of >> w3m rendering within mutt that I get outside of mutt? > > Mmmm, maybe, but probably not. Certainly you can't get the hyperlinks to > work (those "work" because w3m is in charge of the terminal and directly > interacting with the user, whereas when you use w3m within mutt, mutt is > doing the user-interaction---you cannot send keypresses to w3m from > within mutt). Oh, I see. > However, that the HTML is rendered "much better" is > interesting. Better in what way? Is it still "much better" if you execute > "w3m -dump <filename>" at the commandline? No, it is not. With the -dump option the rendering is the same. So I guess I'm stuck. BTW, point taken regarding mutt-users vs. mutt-dev. Sorry about that. Regards, -- Mun > If it is, then there may be > something in your environment that isn't getting passed on to w3m from > mutt at the moment, that we can try to pass. If it isn't... well, then > you're stuck. If the difference is *color*, you're also stuck. There's no > way to force w3m to include the color encoding in it's dump output (short > of editing the w3m source yourself), and mutt can only can only display > the dump output. If, however, the "better" rendering is that w3m > recognizes a larger terminal or is able to use more characters (e.g. > line-drawing characters or accents) for display, then it's probably some > environmental information that we can correct easily, and get it to > display well in mutt. > > For what it's worth, though, this is a question that's better suited for > the mutt users mailing list than for the mutt developers mailing list. > > ~Kyle > -- > Compassion is the basis of morality.
