Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-09 Thread John P . Looney
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:15:51PM +0200, Marius Gedminas mentioned: > On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0100, John P . Looney wrote: > > Has anyone noticed that sometimes, when viewing a mail with Lynx, through > > mutt, that they fight over the terminal ? > > Not with mutt, but lynx used to

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-08 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0100, John P . Looney wrote: > Has anyone noticed that sometimes, when viewing a mail with Lynx, through > mutt, that they fight over the terminal ? Not with mutt, but lynx used to fight with Midnight Commander this way on my system. The reason was an extra `

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-08 Thread ino-waiting
> John P . Looney (Mon 08.0500-12:03): > Has anyone noticed that sometimes, when viewing a mail with Lynx, through > mutt, that they fight over the terminal ? It seems as if some events go to > mutt, some to lynx ? (it's nasty when you press 'q' to kill lynx, and mutt > quits... did you specify

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-08 Thread John P . Looney
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 05:16:13AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: > > This is related to Mutt because maybe in a near future we see html > > emails as the norm, and not the exception, and some kind of html rendering > > engine gets implemented into Mutt. > > > > What's your opinion r

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-07 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On May/06/2000, Corey G. wrote: > I must be living in the dark because I never heard of w3m until I saw > this thread. What is the opinion on how it works verse lynx? Are > there any major benefits in using one over the other? I use it for some things, but in pages with a few tables an

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-07 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On May/06/2000, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > Lots of people connect to the net without a firewall, too :) A firewall? What's a firewall? :-m ;-) > Going by the HTML contents of the occasional HTML email I get, the HTML > is rubbish, you get thirty pages of HTML source for a two-line message >

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread ino-waiting
> Michael Tatge (Sat 06.0500-03:19): > 3. Well, I don't like pink colored fonts, blinking text, etc. >Html gives you more options to make the text look ugly ;-) >Many people using html-mail tend to use TT-fonts which don't exit on >my linux box. I even got a message with a background

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread Corey G.
Mutters, Thanks for pointing out these alternatives for lynx. I just compiled w3m on FreeBSD and Linux without any problems and it works VERY nice for tables. Almost all the HTML I receive is in table format because they are WWW reports. They look great now. I am off to try links now since t

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-05-06-15:08:18 Bennett Todd: > Another browser, which I have had no trouble building, and which > again does a pretty nice job of tables compared to lynx, is links > http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/>. I did links a great disservice by neglecting to mention its core architectur

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 06-May-2000, Corey G. wrote: > I must be living in the dark because I never heard of w3m until I saw > this thread. What is the opinion on how it works verse lynx? Are > there any major benefits in using one over the other? w3m is a bit faster (relatively speaking), and it can render tables

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-05-06-15:02:35 Corey G.: > I must be living in the dark because I never heard of w3m until I saw > this thread. What is the opinion on how it works verse lynx? Are > there any major benefits in using one over the other? w3m is another text-mode browser. AFAIK it's main claim to fame, -vs-

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread Corey G.
I must be living in the dark because I never heard of w3m until I saw this thread. What is the opinion on how it works verse lynx? Are there any major benefits in using one over the other? On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 11:27:35AM -0500, Ronny Haryanto wrote: > On 06-May-2000, Nollaig MacKenzie wrot

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread Kai Blin
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 03:19:51AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: [..snip..] > > 3. Well, I don't like pink colored fonts, blinking text, etc. >Html gives you more options to make the text look ugly ;-) >Many people using html-mail tend to use TT-fonts which don't exit on >my linux box.

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 11:08:50AM -0400, Nollaig MacKenzie wrote: > What would I do to get mutt to use w3m? I tried (mailcap) > > text/html; w3m %s text/html; w3m -T text/html -F %s text/html; w3m -T text/html -F -dump %s; copiousoutput Marius Gedminas -- The *REAL* Y2K is the year 2048.

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 06-May-2000, Nollaig MacKenzie wrote: > What would I do to get mutt to use w3m? I tried (mailcap) > text/html; w3m %s This is what I use in my mailcap: text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump %s ; copiousoutput Ronny

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread Nollaig MacKenzie
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 12:31:11AM +0530, you, the extraordinary Mrinal Kalakrishnan, opined: > > Use the -force_html option of lynx to display it as HTML. A better way > to do it is to get the output of `lynx -dump -force_html %s' and get > it displayed in the pager. Use t

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-06 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 12:48:12AM +0200 or thereabouts, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > I've thought a lot of times about the html-email thing. And I've come > to a conclusion, but as I don't know very much about all this email and > internet world, I put it here to see what you think :-) (yes

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-05 Thread ino-waiting
> Roberto Suarez Soto (Sat 06.0500-00:48): > This is related to Mutt because maybe in a near future we see html > emails as the norm, and not the exception, and some kind of html rendering > engine gets implemented into Mutt. > > What's your opinion related to this? get a nice html-

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-05 Thread Michael Tatge
Hi! On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 12:48:12AM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > I think that html email will become the standart. I've got only two > reasons to think this: > > - The most used MUAs (Windows based) use by default html to compose > emails. They're also full of bugs,

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-05 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
> I'm expecting to see a nice html page - am I expecting too much, > or am I just doing something wrong? I'm just quoting this to make a question. Sorry to the original poster O:-) ;-) I've thought a lot of times about the html-email thing. And I've come to a conclusion, but as I

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-02 Thread Rémi Guyomarch
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:38:23PM -0400, Hardy Merrill wrote: > Another newbie question - I've setup my .mailcap file to include > > text/html; lynx %s Lynx had several buffer overflow problems in the near past. Some weeks ago, the FreeBSD port of lynx had been marked FORBIDDEN because : l

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-02 Thread Gary Johnson
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 12:31:11AM +0530, Mrinal Kalakrishnan wrote: > Hardy Merrill typed: > > one attachment - "lynx" comes up(I think) and displays the page, > > but the page is not properly formatted html - it's just text with > > the html tags included, which is quite a mess. > > Use the -f

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-02 Thread Mrinal Kalakrishnan
Hi, Hardy Merrill typed: > one attachment - "lynx" comes up(I think) and displays the page, > but the page is not properly formatted html - it's just text with > the html tags included, which is quite a mess. Use the -force_html option of lynx to display it as HTML. A better way to do it is to g

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-02 Thread Tom Hall
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:49:49PM -0400, Jim Toth wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:38:23PM -0400, Hardy Merrill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Another newbie question - I've setup my .mailcap file to include > > > > text/html; lynx %s > > > [snip--sees source not html formatted] > > I'm expec

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-02 Thread Shawn D. McPeek
This is what I use: text/html; lynx %s; needsterminal; nametemplate=%s.html Shawn Previously, Hardy Merrill wrote: :> Another newbie question - I've setup my .mailcap file to include :> :> text/html; lynx %s :> :> I receive html email from ZDNet, and what happens for these :> messages is the

Re: viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-02 Thread Jim Toth
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:38:23PM -0400, Hardy Merrill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Another newbie question - I've setup my .mailcap file to include > > text/html; lynx %s > [snip--sees source not html formatted] > I'm expecting to see a nice html page - am I expecting too much, > or am I just d

viewing html emails in mutt

2000-05-02 Thread Hardy Merrill
Another newbie question - I've setup my .mailcap file to include text/html; lynx %s I receive html email from ZDNet, and what happens for these messages is the pager says that "text/html" is not supported, and I should use "v" to view attachments. So I press "v" to get the list of attachments(t