On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 07:38:40PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 01:14:10AM +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:40:31AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > > > I'm trying to use emacs as an alternative pager for mutt. Specifically, > > > I'd like to use the gnus Article mode to display articles. I've > > > tried just setting emacsclient as the pager, but I have some questions: > > > > > > 1) What exactly is passed to the pager? From my experiments, it appears > > > the message is pre-formatted before passing it to the pager. That > > > prevents me from latting the pager format it, so I'd like to avoid this. > > > I tried moving my .mailcap file, but I'm still seeing already > > > formatted messages. Is there any way to get mutt to send the whole raw > > > message to the pager? > > > > As far as I know, the message is passed in via stdin. Emacs does not > > have the capability to read and display this as a buffer. The only way > > to use emacs as a pager is to write to a temp file and then open that in > > Emacs. You have to achieve this from a custom script. > > > > Thanks. Yes, I've been experimenting a perl script that passes the text to > emacs as a file, but it looks like it's being pre-formatted by > mutt before being passed.
On second thought, I don't think mutt does use stdin for pager. I think it passes a temp file. I was mistaken because I also experimented with piping messages from mutt, using the perl script. -pd -- ---- Peter Davis The Tech Curmudgeon www.techcurmudgeon.com
