Re: [Nmh-workers] selecting text over html

2004-09-02 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:34:35 -0700 From:Scott Blachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I couldn't find that decision point either...I'm GUESSING that it just | ends up taking the last alternative of the set and shows that one (or | somet

Re: [Nmh-workers] selecting text over html

2004-09-02 Thread Scott Blachowicz
Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1 September 2004 at 9:38, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is there a way to get nmh to to display the text version of a > > > message in favor of an html version? > > > > Here are two ideas: > > thanks jerry. these are good suggestions, and

Re: [Nmh-workers] selecting text over html

2004-09-01 Thread Sam Holden
Jerry Peek writes: >On 1 September 2004 at 9:38, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> in an xterm, text _is_ the richest format. :-) > >Actually, you can set a showproc that will check the message type >and, if it's HTML, extract that part and invoke lynx(1) or links(1) >to show it within the

Re: [Nmh-workers] selecting text over html

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Fox
> On 1 September 2004 at 9:38, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there a way to get nmh to to display the text version of > > a message in favor of an html version? > > Here are two ideas: thanks jerry. these are good suggestions, and i'll give them a try. it seems, though, that t

Re: [Nmh-workers] selecting text over html

2004-09-01 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Jerry Peek wrote: > 2) Use commands like these: > > $ mhlist > msg part type/subtype size description > 1750 multipart/alternative 6632 >1text/html 4651 >2text/plain1819 > > $ mhshow -part

Re: [Nmh-workers] selecting text over html

2004-09-01 Thread Jerry Peek
On 1 September 2004 at 9:38, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a way to get nmh to to display the text version of > a message in favor of an html version? Here are two ideas: 1) Use the -nocheckmime or -noshowproc switch with show, next, and prev. (I put it in my MH profile.) I

[Nmh-workers] selecting text over html

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Fox
hi -- is there a way to get nmh to to display the text version of a message in favor of an html version? i realize that the mime standard (rfc?) says that the richest format should be used, but in an xterm, text _is_ the richest format. :-) currently i deal with this by simply disabling display