The utility called newsbody have not been availible for some
months. Now it is back in a new improved version.
The program is used to remove headers, quotes, and/or signature
from a email or news message before invoking some other program
(e.g. a spellchecker) on the remaining part. Eventually the
remaining part with possible changes is again merged with the
headers, quotes and/or signature.
It can e.g. be used to invoke ispell from Mutt's compose menu to
spell check only new text without quotes and signature. To do this
can you either use Mutt's built-in ispell command:
Make a shell script with this command line:
"newsbody -hqs -n $2 -p ispell -- -x %f"
and "set ispell=path/to/script" in your .muttrc
or you can call newsbody directly using the filter-entry command:
Make e.g. this macro in your .muttrc:
macro compose i \
"<filter-entry>newsbody -hqs -n - -p ispell -- -x %f<enter>" \
"run ispell on the selected part"
Newsbody will hopefully run on all platforms where mutt can run,
but I only have a Linux system to test it on. If something special
is needed on your particular platform, please tell me about it.
Newsbody is free (under GPL) and can be downloadet from
<URL:http://www.image.dk/~byrial/newsbody/>.
Regards,
- Byrial
