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Re: [nmh-workers] Formatting HTML to Text: netrik.

2019-06-27 16:50:53

Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
    > Quite simply, all I would wish for would be something that would 
-properly-
    > convert -both- HTMLized emails -and- "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"
    > emails (like this one I'm responding to) into good old fashioned ascii,
    > at least for purposes of the "show" and "repl" commands.  I have my
    > jury-rigged solution working adequately well for the base64 encoding
    > still, but only for the "show" command, which means that I have to do
    > some manual cutting-and-pasting when/if I want to reply to a base64
    > encoded email. :-(

I would also like that for the cases where I want to use show.
I use mh-e, and I mostly have things configured right:
  1) use text/plain if it exists.
  2) format text/html is no text/plain
  (3) but often text/plain is bullshit-pseudo-HTML and you need to avoid it.

The additional problem is that reply yanks text from formatted text/html
rather than text/plain.  The good HTML formatters in mh-e (Emacs) are slow,
and the fast ones do a poor job. I would rather show did things and mh-e used
that, but too many moving parts.

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