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http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~rader/mh-v/
I grabbed it and installed it on a Fedora 17 system, which had
the few prerequisite packages already installed by some stroke
luck.
Have been using it 40, 60 hrs/wk since I ditched EXMH in late
Dec 2011.
I don't know that I'd ditch exmh. How does mh-v handle image
attachments? I like how exmh displays them automagically.
Short answer: you have to type <tab>, and 'v' (assumes you have X11
forwarding.)
Long answer: MH-V makes all attachments available via "hyperlinks" shown
in the "Attach:" header line. (It also makes html multipart/alternative
content available via a hyperlinks in the "Alt:" header line.) You can
throw them at your browser, or up on the web using 'v' (view) or 's' (save).
Consider msg 23 in my inbox...
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:44:21 CST
To: Steve Rader <rader(_at_)hep(_dot_)wisc(_dot_)edu>
From: Antonio Granados <[redacted]>
Subject: FW: Very Clever
Attach: 23.2.jpeg
Alt: 23.1.1.html
Here <tab> would highlight "23.2.jpeg" (message 23 part 2) in light gray.
When I'm running MH-V on localhost's display, I then do 'v' to have MH-V
execute "mhstore" to save the image attachment and do e.g.
"firefox -browser file:///home/rader/.mh_cache/23.2.jpeg &"
to bring it up in my browser.
When I'm remote and have fast X11 forwarding, I do 'v', and MH-V sees
I have the SSH_CLIENT env var set, and it thus does
"firefox -browser http://some.domain.name/~rader/mh_cache/23.2.jpeg &"
(because file:/// is not local/available.)
When I have slow X11 forwarding or am at a public computer, I type 's'
to save, and then nav to http://some.domain.name/~rader/mh_cache/ in
a browser.
Also, for viewing html multipart/alternative, alls one needs to do is 'v'.
This is nice for all those emails you receive that have worthless text/plain
parts and/or only text/html parts that don't render well in elinks.
Started as a lark after barely getting vmh to compile/work on
linux,
vmh ... wasn't that something that one could get to run on Sun-3s
with SunView? I think I might have explored that before finding
Xmh.
[I went from command line mh to Xmh on a crappy VAXStation 3200, or maybe
even a crappy 19" COLOR DECStation 3100, so you win.]
But really you're a bit off: vmh is a curses thingie, not SunView. It was
shipped broken with nmh, until it was removed in 1.4? It displays "scan"
output, uses up/down arrow key to select msgs, and <enter> to "show".
When I got it to limp along (with end-of-line and/or num columns problems)
during xmas vacation in Dec 2011, I thought, "shit, I could code this in
Perl curses in like 10 minutes." Which I did, mostly for kicks. And at
almost exactly the same time I realized Perl curses supports xterm-256color.
And I thought, "shit, I could make this into a faster EXMH with GTK+ colors
in like 10, 15 pre-dawn-pre-family cups of coffee." It took me about 30.
(When Ken called me crazy the other day, I think that was a complement?)
having EXMH getting annoyingly long in the tooth, and realizing
modern curses supports 256 color xterms.
Have never got around to saying "there's 1.0 version now". Oh,
well, the user base is probably less than two.
Be prepared for a 50% increase in the user base! It looks pretty
good. vim's spell check and diction highlighting works too.
Well done!
Yes, there's some minimalist highlighting done by MH-V. But MH-V shouldn't
get any credit for spell checking: I think you'll find that's just pure vim
in comp/repl/forw?
As soon as I get a minute to wrap an RPM package around the
beast, and merging the provided nmh config files with my own
custom deviations, then I'll dive into actually using it full
time for a while. I'm happy to shoot you the .spec file for the
RPM, if that's useful to you.
Thanks for the offer, but I already have makefile to scp over stuff.
steve
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