Re: autoview/mailcap/elinks question
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:18:27AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Thursday, May 1 at 12:04 PM, quoth Chris G:
> > 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.
>
> Personally, I prefer w3m, because it uses line-drawing characters for
> tables.
>
> > 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.
>
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Thanks for the comprehensive reply, I'll go away and digest it! :-)
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Chris Green