[working hack found] Re: Invoking an alternative command on a MIME part
also sprach Cameron Simpson [2015-04-28 04:17 +0200]:
> Sounds like a job for a mutt macro. A first cut would be to write
> a macro which pointed $mailcap_path at a different mailcap file,
> then ran view-attach, then restored the old value.
Yes! This idea led me to a working solution^W hack:
set mailcap_path=~/.mailcap-edit-wrapper
and that file then contains entries for all types such as:
application/*; chmod +w %s && run-mailcap --action=edit %t:%s
Unfortunately, the main type ("application") cannot be wildcarded,
but there's only a limited set of those, so no big deal. The chmod
is needed since mutt saves the temporary file read-only.
So now it's easy to create a macro as you describe above, allowing
me to map 'e' to "editing an attachment".
Thanks for your help!
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Re: Invoking an alternative command on a MIME part
also sprach Luis Mochan [2015-04-28 04:36 +0200]: > What I do in similar situations is pipe the attachment to a helper > (I call it muttfilter) that accepts as first argument a file name, Oh, but now you need a different pipe depending on the file type, e.g. for PDF and PNG. I don't really want that as mailcap already handles this. -- @martinkrafft | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "love is a grave mental disease." -- platon spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/sig-policy/999bbcc4/current)
vs. (was: Invoking an alternative command on a MIME part)
also sprach Cameron Simpson [2015-04-28 04:17 +0200]: > I do not properly understand versus . > I would appreciate someone else chiming in here. I think the difference is that tries to render inline (e.g. text/plain) and only resorts to run-mailcap when it has not internal viewer. skips the internal viewers and always goes via mailcap. -- @martinkrafft | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ beware of bugs in the above code; i have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- donald e. knuth spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/sig-policy/999bbcc4/current)
Re: Invoking an alternative command on a MIME part
> Oh, but now you need a different pipe depending on the file type, > e.g. for PDF and PNG. I don't really want that as mailcap already > handles this. I use it only when I want to override mailcap for whatever reason, and then I specify the program I want to use in the pipe command. Otherwise I simply use or m to view-attach or view-mailcap. Regards, Luis signature.asc Description: Digital signature
display html email in browser?
Dear fellow mutt users,
Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
window? I tried saving the html message part to disk and opened that
file, but there was no formatting, and some symbols were wrong.
Motivation: Wanting to print a few html emails in their original form
("in full glory"), not rendered through w3m, but wanting to get rid of
icedove/thunderbird, which I am keeping just for that.
Thanks for ideas!
P
Re: display html email in browser?
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Peter P. wrote: > Dear fellow mutt users, > > Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser > window? Hello Peter, once opened the message, press 'v' (view-attachments) and then select the .html one and press , that should auto-invoke x-www-browser.
Re: display html email in browser?
* Francesco Ariis [2015-04-28 12:47]: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Peter P. wrote: > > Dear fellow mutt users, > > > > Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser > > window? > > Hello Peter, > once opened the message, press 'v' (view-attachments) and then > select the .html one and press , that should auto-invoke > x-www-browser. Thanks Francesco, That way the message gets displayed inside mutt using w3m. In my .muttrc I have set auto_view text/html application/x-pgp-message and text/html; /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html as the corresponding mailcap entry. I wonder if I could pipe the html message part to the browser. The way I did it, typing "|" and specifying firefox as the program to pipe it to, did not really render it nicely. best, P
Re: display html email in browser?
"Peter P." writes: > * Francesco Ariis [2015-04-28 12:47]: >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Peter P. wrote: >> > Dear fellow mutt users, >> > >> > Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser >> > window? >> >> Hello Peter, >> once opened the message, press 'v' (view-attachments) and then >> select the .html one and press , that should auto-invoke >> x-www-browser. > Thanks Francesco, > That way the message gets displayed inside mutt using w3m. In my .muttrc I > have set > auto_view text/html application/x-pgp-message > and > text/html; /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput; > description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html > as the corresponding mailcap entry. > I wonder if I could pipe the html message part to the browser. The way I > did it, typing "|" and specifying firefox as the program to pipe it to, > did not really render it nicely. You can definitely do this, but I suspect most browsers are not designed to accept input from stdin (a pipe). You can write a script to save the HTML part in a temp file, and then display that in the browser. There are actually a number of such scripts around if you Google it. -pd -- Peter Davis The Tech Curmudgeon www.techcurmudgeon.com
Re: display html email in browser?
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 01:02:52PM -0400, Peter P. wrote: > Thanks Francesco, > That way the message gets displayed inside mutt using w3m. In my .muttrc I > have set > auto_view text/html application/x-pgp-message > and > text/html; /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput; > description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html > as the corresponding mailcap entry. > I wonder if I could pipe the html message part to the browser. The way I > did it, typing "|" and specifying firefox as the program to pipe it to, > did not really render it nicely. Mhhh I am a puzzled on why saving (or piping, for what matters) ends up in a corrupted result. Which symbols were wrong? Do you think you can share the .html attachment or at least a picture depicting the missing formatting?
Re: display html email in browser?
On 2015-04-28, Peter P. wrote:
> * Francesco Ariis [2015-04-28 12:47]:
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Peter P. wrote:
>> > Dear fellow mutt users,
>> >
>> > Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
>> > window?
>>
>> Hello Peter,
>> once opened the message, press 'v' (view-attachments) and then
>> select the .html one and press , that should auto-invoke
>> x-www-browser.
> Thanks Francesco,
> That way the message gets displayed inside mutt using w3m.
Yep. What many of us do is use w3m to view inside mutt, and then
define a 'print' command to view it externally:
text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput; print = firefoxurl %s;
-firefoxurl
#!/bin/bash
MRC="firefox -remote"
URL="$1"
CMD="${2:-new-tab}"
echo "$0 '$1' '$2'" >/dev/tty
test -f "$URL" && URL="file://$URL"
expr match "$URL" '.*://.*' >/dev/null || URL="http://$URL";
if $MRC 'ping()' 2>/dev/null ; then
echo 'firefox already running'
echo $MRC "openURL($URL,$CMD)"
$MRC "openURL($URL,$CMD)"
else
echo 'firefox not running'
echo firefox "$URL"
firefox "$URL"
fi
---
So after you hit 'v' so see the attachments, select the html one and
hit 'p'
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Re: display html email in browser?
On 2015-04-28, Peter P. wrote:
> Dear fellow mutt users,
>
> Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
> window? I tried saving the html message part to disk and opened that
> file, but there was no formatting, and some symbols were wrong.
I use muttils (https://bitbucket.org/blacktrash/muttils) for
this very purpose. By default it maps, iirc, F7 to 'view in
browser' and F8 to 'view safely in browser' i.e. don't download
images, etc. This way I can still autoview html parts with w3m.
hth,
larry
>
> Motivation: Wanting to print a few html emails in their original form
> ("in full glory"), not rendered through w3m, but wanting to get rid of
> icedove/thunderbird, which I am keeping just for that.
>
> Thanks for ideas!
> P
>
Re: display html email in browser?
On 2015-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote: > Yep. What many of us do is use w3m to view inside mutt, and then > define a 'print' command to view it externally: > > text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput; print = firefoxurl %s; Uh, in case your crystal ball was broken, that's a line from ~/.mimecap. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is this an out-take at from the "BRADY BUNCH"? gmail.com
Re: display html email in browser?
On 2015-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Yep. What many of us do is use w3m to view inside mutt, and then >> define a 'print' command to view it externally: >> >> text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput; print = firefoxurl %s; > > Uh, in case your crystal ball was broken, that's a line from ~/.mimecap. Aargh. it's .mailcap, not .mimecap. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hand me a pair of at leather pants and a CASIO gmail.comkeyboard -- I'm living for today!
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