Re: Getting colour when using lynx to display HTML messages
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:21:27PM +0100, Toby wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > what I have in my mailcap is now just:
> > text/html; lynx -force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput
>
> Have you tried calling it from the shell?
>
> lynx -force_html -dump test.html
>
> If it comes out uncolored then it's not Mutt's fault.
>
Absolutely right, I should have thought of that, it's the -dump that
stops lynx colouring it. Thanks!
> My lynx manpage mentions -color as a way to force color mode on, but my
> lynx doesn't understand it. Both are from the same Debian package.
> Your mileage may vary :)
>
I've been through all this bit already while getting lynx to work in
colour by itself. The -color option is only available when lynx is
compiled with Slang, when compiled with ncurses it detects colour
availability all by itself (from the terminal capabilities) and -color
is not allowed.
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