On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:23:57AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > >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.
FWIW, Patrick didn't say text/plain, he said text. > If a message is in text/enriched type, mutt knows how to render that > to the terminal. Rendering in Mutt is not the point... It's generation of text with a particular rendering on the receiving end. But since you brought it up, I believe RTF is a dead standard, and IIRC only a handful of mail clients support it. If so it's not a generalized solution... And even Mutt's support for it does not include *generating* it... that requires you to create the document in your editor and tell Mutt (explicitly or by file extension) that the file is rich text, when you attach it to your message. > 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). Aside from being beside the point, don't put that in Mutt--that's what MIME is for. > To me, the larger hurdle is writing messages in a markup language. It's not a hurdle--it just isn't Mutt's job. Lots of things can format markup, including your editor, which is where your e-mail messages generally are composed... > 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)? Yes, it's called MIME. Save your document with an appropriate file name and extension, and attach it to your message. That's how this is SUPPOSED to work... and it does. For what it's worth, I sympathize with the ask here. I've long wanted to be able to do very basic formatting in e-mail messages--mostly just bold and italics, with perhaps the occasional alignment. But long ago the industry decided to use HTML for this, and it's now ubiquitous, so you should probably just do that. But if you want to do that with Mutt, you still need to compose the HTML yourself, save it, and attach it to your message. Or, you could put the HTML right in your message body, and then change the type from the attachment view. I did actually just test that, and it does work... Although it made me realize that I've all but forgotten HTML. =8^) -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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