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Re: Help needed to configure w3m as my HTML viewer



On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 17:58:48 +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
>  w3m <filename> views the file like any other web browser.
> 
>  -dump dumps a formatted version of the page to stdout, so you lose all
>  hyperlinks.

I use the attached lines in my ~/.mailcap to use w3m as an HTML viewer.
I also have another entry (earlier within mailcap, not attached here)
which tests for a display and starts w3m in a separate xterm.

One rule "dump"s the rendered HTML page in the mail view, which is very
often sufficient If I want to open it in a browsable way (with the
requested hyperlinks), I press "v" (<view-attachments>) and press
return (<view-attach>) on the HTML attachment.

Let me capture this thread and ask a question: How can mutt tell w3m
which charset to use? In the attached mailcap, I force ISO-8859-1, but
that's just a hack. In true honesty, I get some ISO and some UTF-8
coded HTML attachments. Assuming the attachment is correctly
MIME-denoted in the header (which is mostly the case), how can I pass
this on to w3m? Any ideas?

Thanks,
Moritz
text/html;      w3m -T text/html -I ISO-8859-1 -o frame=0 -o meta_refresh=0 -o 
auto_image=0 %s; needsterminal; \
        description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html;      w3m -T text/html -I ISO-8859-1 -o frame=0 -o meta_refresh=0 -o 
auto_image=0 -dump %s; copiousoutput; \
        description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html