Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-28 Thread Andre Klärner
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:38:14AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:43:34PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: > The point is to make Mutt wait to remove the file until some time after > your browser is actually displaying it. Any time after that, Mutt can be > allowed to continue

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:43:34PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:53:20PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Mark H. Wood: > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:28:05AM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: > > > > First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that >

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Champion: > > It should be on the wiki. Thanks for reminding me about the wiki. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) :(){ :|:& };: - -

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-27 Thread David Champion
* On 25 Jan 2013, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > I see you posted an email about this back on December 19th too. > Although I thought Patrick Shanahan explained it clearly then, and just > now Mark H. Wood did again, I'll take a shot and try to (even) more > verbosely explain what is going on and why

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-26 Thread Alan McConnell
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:10:16PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > Alan McConnell wrote: > > Re "Race Conditions". Unless I am mistaken, mutt is > > written as a single, un-threaded process; I believe that > > 'me' is (justly) proud of this achievement. So I do > > not understand how "two proce

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alan McConnell: > > My iceweasel(aka Firefox) runs, and displays in the > middle of my screen, from the moment my computer is turned Just a suggestion ... isolate the problem. Swap out firefox. In my ~/mutt/mailcap: text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html -

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
Alan McConnell wrote: > Re "Race Conditions". Unless I am mistaken, mutt is > written as a single, un-threaded process; I believe that > 'me' is (justly) proud of this achievement. So I do > not understand how "two processes" can be involved here. I see you posted an email about this back on Dec

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread Alan McConnell
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:53:20PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Mark H. Wood: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:28:05AM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: > > > First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that > > > mutt relies on two config files, .muttrc and .mailcap. Perhaps > >

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mark H. Wood: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:28:05AM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: > > First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that > > mutt relies on two config files, .muttrc and .mailcap. Perhaps > > .mailcap is a general-purpose configuration file for anything that

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread Marco Giusti
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:26:11PM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: [cut] > > Second(personal issue): I'm still having problems with > > getting my html-mail to open(in a new tab) in my browser, > > which is Firefox(Debianers call it iceweasel). Often, > > when I use 'v' on an entry in my mutt display,

Re: Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:28:05AM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: > First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that > mutt relies on two config files, .muttrc and .mailcap. Perhaps > one of the experts could give us a short exposition of the > use of each of these files, and what to do

Config Files, and Remaining Confusion with html-mail

2013-01-25 Thread Alan McConnell
Assembled Wisdom! First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that mutt relies on two config files, .muttrc and .mailcap. Perhaps one of the experts could give us a short exposition of the use of each of these files, and what to do when they conflict. That would help me get my second,