Catching up on my emails...
In message <7376.1561672209@localhost>,
Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> wrote:
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'm going to be trying the solution that was suggested to me... hopefully
today.
I use mh-e, and I mostly have things configured right:
1) use text/plain if it exists.
Ummm... YEA! Gosh! I would hope so!
2) format text/html is no text/plain
(3) but often text/plain is bullshit-pseudo-HTML and you need to avoid it.
I do not have any understanding of your points (2) and (3). Could you
elaborate?
The additional problem is that reply yanks text from formatted text/html
rather than text/plain.
Yes, that's a problem. And it should most certainly get fixed. (My own
crappy/broken solution that I slapped together with spit and bubble gum
years ago did at least try to grab a text/plain section, when available.)
The good HTML formatters in mh-e (Emacs) are slow,
and the fast ones do a poor job.
Are you saying that, for example, lynx does a crummy job?
It's pretty fast. Does that mean it also produces crappy results?
I have trouble believe that in this day and age, when we have had REALLY
widespread use of HTML for around a couple of decades now, that there are
still -zero- tools tyat can quicky render HTML into plain text without
mucking it up somehow.
Regards,
rfg
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