Quoth Christian Ebert on Sunday, 05 September 2010: > * Chip Camden on Saturday, September 04, 2010 at 15:22:57 -0700 > > Quoth Christian Ebert on Saturday, 04 September 2010: > >> * Charles Jie on Saturday, September 04, 2010 at 18:40:43 +0800 > >>> I've been using mutt for 7 years. From time to time, such idea may flash > >>> in my brain. > >>> > >>> I can read most of my daily mail with mutt without problem. > >>> > >>> But sometimes some friends may send me an html mail with pretty rich > >>> inline images. Such embedded images need to be seen in right > >>> context (there are related text arround them). > >>> > >>> My current practice is bouncing the mail to another user in my linux > >>> box, and launch Thunderbird to get and read it. > >>> > >>> I'm wondering if it is possible for my mutt to copy the message to a > >>> temporary mbox file, and launch a GUI mail viewer to view it. (the way a > >>> little like what we do about attachment) > >>> > >>> I've checked Thunderbird's command line usage. It accepts a URL > >>> (thunderbird -mail URL) but it doesn't treat it as mbox (but raw > >>> text). > >>> > >>> Any idea or experience? > >> > >> Shameless plug: > >> > >> If you're not afraid of Python, you could try viewhtmlmsg of my > >> muttils bundle. It seems to do what you want. > >> > >> $ viewhtmlmsg -h > >> Usage: viewhtmlmsg [options] > >> > >> Displays html message read from stdin. $BROWSER environment may be > >> overridden > >> with option "-b". > >> > >> Options: > >> --version show program's version number and exit > >> -h, --help show this help message and exit > >> -s, --safe view html w/o loading remote files > >> -k KEEP, --keep=KEEP remove temporary files after KEEP seconds (0 for > >> keeping files) > >> -b APP, --browser=APP > >> prefer browser APP over $BROWSER environment > >> > >> But it is mainly meant to be used from within Mutt via a macro: > >> > >> # call viewhtmlmsg from macro > >> macro index,pager <F7> "\ > >> <enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\ > >> <pipe-message>viewhtmlmsg<enter>\ > >> <enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\ > >> " "view HTML in browser" > >> > >> macro index,pager <F8> "\ > >> <enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\ > >> <pipe-message>viewhtmlmsg -s<enter>\ > >> <enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\ > >> " "view HTML (safe) in browser" > > > > That's pretty cool. It looks though like it doesn't accept a shell > > wrapper for the browser: > > > > viewhtmlmsg -b browser > > > > where browser is a shell script as follows: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > if RunningX > > then > > firefox $* > > xdotool key super+3 > > xdotool keyup super > > else > > w3m -t text/html $* > > fi > > > > It appears from debugging that we never even get into this script, yet no > > error is generated. Same result if I put the full path on the script. > > > > Works great with just 'viewhtmlmsg -b firefox' though, and the odd thing > > is that 'firefox' is a shell script in /usr/local/bin. > > That's because the script uses Python's webbrowser module > > http://docs.python.org/library/webbrowser.html > > for browser detection and handling. > > I deemed it sufficient for most use cases. > > c > -- > theatre - books - texts - movies > Black Trash Productions at home: http://www.blacktrash.org/ > Black Trash Productions on Facebook: > http://www.facebook.com/blacktrashproductions
A known list of browsers seems very un-unixlike. If the name supplied is not one of those, couldn't you just launch it with the filename as an argument? Thanks again for the script, though. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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