norm(_at_)dad(_dot_)org wrote:
So I ask: Is there an argument, I could give to show, that would emulate the
existence of a .mh_profile entry like:
mhshow-show-text/html: %pmhshowHelper '%d' '%s' '%f'
i'm not quite sure what you're asking. but here's what i do. maybe
there will be ideas here.
i have several wrapper scripts for dealing with text and html mail. the
"argument" i pass is in the form of an MHSHOW environment variable:
1) ptext -- always shows me the text/plain part, by blocking out mh's
knowledge of how to display html:
MHSHOW=$Mail/mhn.block_html \
mhshow -type text/plain "$@" | hilite | less
the file mhn.block_html looks like this -- a single line, nothing after the
colon delimiter:
$ cat mhn.block_html
mhshow-show-text/html:
2) phtml_dump -- converts html to flat text via elinks. i use this
if all i need to is read the content.
MHSHOW=$Mail/mhn.html_dump \
mhshow -noconcat -type text/html "$@" | hilite | less
the file mhn.html_dump looks like this:
$ cat mhn.html_dump
mhshow-show-text/html: %p/usr/bin/elinks -force-html '%F' -dump
3) phtml_viewer -- shows html in a live text browser. sometimes
i want to interact (albeit primitively) with the content, like
when someone sends me commercial mail with an "unsubscribe" link
buried in it somewhere. i find a text browser perfectly adequate
for that.
MHSHOW=$Mail/mhn.html_live \
mhshow -noconcat -type text/html "$@"
$ cat mhn.html_live
mhshow-show-text/html: %p/usr/bin/links -force-html '%F'
i forget why i use links in case 3) and elinks in 2) -- i experimented
to figure out which of the many text browsers i liked best for each
task.
finally, i also have a script (which i intend to share with the list
someday soon) for dealing with mime parts. i can quickly and easily
select a part (the text/html part, say), save it to a file in /tmp,
and then switch to my "real" firefox or chrome browser and type
file:///tmp/message.html into the URL bar to bring up the message.
paul
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paul fox, pgf(_at_)foxharp(_dot_)boston(_dot_)ma(_dot_)us (arlington, ma,
where it's 53.8 degrees)
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