Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
hose things all look good. I assume that you don't have any
mhshow-show-text/html entries in .mh_profile. So, let me ask again ....
what exactly is not working with mhshow?
Here is first problem. The body of some Emails consist of just HTML stuff or
perhaps an introductory line, followed by HTML. Rendering the HTML as text,
via (I guess) w3m, is pretty pale compared to viewing it via a browser.
I have, personally, been pretty happy with the output generated by w3m on
text/html parts; it's readable, at least. Unfortunately, we're just up
against limits in the display medium. We could distribute entries like:
mhshow-show-image/jpeg: jpegtopnm | ppmtoascii
But should we? As a default, probably not. So is putting text/html through
w3m going to be as good as Chrome or Firefox? Well, no ... that's just
not going to happen. I think it's still miles better than it was.
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've thought about the syntax for this, but it ends up being hard (also,
you have to pass it down a lot of functions). You can set the MHSHOW
environment variable, so if you had a file "helper.mhshow" that contained:
mhshow-show-text/html: %pmhshowHelper '%d' '%s' '%f'
you could do:
MHSHOW=helper.mhshow mhshow 100
or whatever.
Second thought: After installing w3m and elinks, should I have rebuilt and
reinstalled nmh?
If there aren't any appropriate entries in mhn.defaults, you can simply
remove etc/mhn.defaults from the build tree, then make && make install.
Third thought: I've been thinking about my initial assertion that the original
MH was used by completely novice secretaries. That's true, but it was an
unfair comparison to today. Those secretaries were not sitting alone at home
with a PC. They were in a office, within a few feet of more experienceg users,
and often, within a few feet of relative experts.
Yeah, that makes it different, doesn't it? Also, that was in a pre-MIME
world.
I've thought about the nmh target audience ... I guess my thinking is
the ideal nmh user be programmers who want a flexible MUA that can make
use of many of the features of the Unix command line. I'd still like
a user be able to walk up to a nmh installation and the basic commands
be useful without any configuration, though.
--Ken
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