On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 03:46:14PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> [04-27-17 11:21]:On 2017-04-27, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > >>OK, so how does one do that within mutt? > > I would suggest that the most prudent approach is to use a lightweight > markup language (LML). LMLs tend to be designed such that, while they > CAN be rendered into a presentation form, the source code is also > (relatively) legible. > > So, let's say I wanted to write something in bold. In HTML that could be ><span style="font-weight:bold">bold</span. In LaTeX, it would be > \textbf{bold}. But in markdown, it's simply **bold**.Yes, I've been using Tex/LaTeX for 25+ years, various roff flavors for 30+ years, as well as asciidoc, markdown, and re-strucutred text for not-quite-as-many years. > A good LML would have a MIME type associated with it (I see that > markdown does, but reStructuredText doesn't, for example), so it can > either be viewed (as source) in the pager or rendered (as presentation > form) by a mailcap entry. The question was how to do it _within_ _mutt_ instead of preparing an HTML or PDF file externally and attaching it.*attaching* it *is* the way "_winthin_ _mutt_". mutt is a *text* application, not markup/markdown/html/css/.... the way you define text on *your* system is what you get, not what is sent or what you send.
Actually, mutt DOES have some support for more than text/plain. If a message is in text/enriched type, mutt knows how to render that to the terminal. I can see that a sufficiently motivated developer could add, say, a markdown parser there just as easily (or if markdown is too vague, something as safely-defined as text/enriched). To me, the larger hurdle is writing messages in a markup language. Is there any method in mutt to cope with the fact that $EDITOR has just passed it something other than text/plain (that is, some method OTHER than ^T on the compose screen)?
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