On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:27:03AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > Gary, et al -- > > ...and then Gary Johnson said... > % > % On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:17:53PM +0200, Cedric Duval wrote: > % > Pedro Alves wrote: > % > > Hello. Is it possible to configure mutt to automatically lunch the external > % > > viewer defined in mailcap inside the mutt window? For instance, lunch w3m > ... > % > auto_view text/html > ... > % Pedro wanted was to view the HTML content of the message using a browser > % such as w3m, as can be done from the attachment menu, but with the > % browser invoked automatically when the message is opened from the index > % menu. I don't think mutt currently supports that. > > In that case, what about something like > > msg-hook . 'set pager=builtin' > msg-hook <pattern> 'set pager=lynx' > > or so? If you want lynx as a pager, just set lynx as the pager... > [Note that this is untested, that I don't use msg-hook, and that > there's probably a lovely default setting that might be better than > the all-matching default msg-hook.]
Good point. You just have to see that mutt sends raw HTML to the pager. You also reminded me of a similar discussion here last month in which I wrote: > I played around with this a little and came up with the following > solution. It may have some bugs, but it's at least a starting point. > First of all, you want to have mutt send HTML messages as raw HTML to > your pager. The way I did this was to put this in my muttrc: > > auto_view text/html > > and this in my mailcap: > > text/html; w3m %s; nametemplate=%s.html > text/html; cat; copiousoutput > > Next, you want to specify a pager that understands that the header is > plain text but the body is HTML. I wrote a shell script and called it > 'htmlviewer': > > #!/bin/sh > sed '1i\ > <html>\ > <head>\ > <title></title>\ > </head>\ > <body>\ > <pre> > s|^\[-- Autoview using .*|</pre>\ > </body>\ > </html>| > ' $* | w3m -T text/html > > It wraps the header in an HTML block and deletes the "[-- Autoview" line > before sending the message to w3m. Then I just set > > pager=htmlviewer > > in my muttrc. You will probably want to use a display-hook (or > message-hook) for this. I don't know why I didn't think of that when I wrote my first reply. Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Spokane, Washington, USA http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ |
