Re: autoview/mailcap/elinks question
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:04:09PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> I have moved from using lynx as my HTML mail viewer to using elinks
> which, for some types of HTML in particular, works much better.
>
> However it's still not as good as it could be. I have "auto_view
> text/html" in my muttrc file. I have "text/html; elinks -force-html
> %s; copiousoutput" in my .mailcap. HTML E-Mail is displayed 80
> columns wide even when I have a much wider window and colours (i.e.
> background etc.) are not set properly.
>
> If I hit 'v' in the index and save the HTML part of the message to a
> file and then view that file using elinks I get a much better version,
> it uses the available width of the window and sets background colours
> etc.
>
> Is there anything I can do to get the better version via auto_view?
>
I've been playing with this, and getting nowhere.
I think what I essentially want is a way to get into elinks
interactive mode (i.e. give elinks control) using autoview. Is it
possible to do this? As far as I can tell adding "needsterminal" to
the mailcap entry that already has "copiousoutput" does nothing at
all. The tin information on this actually says that having both
"copiousoutput" and "needsterminal" is probably an error.
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Chris Green