Re: Using Elinks with mutt
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:59:09AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 6 at 10:01 AM, quoth Chris G:
> > However my other issue is less with colour as such but with
> > formatting.
> >
> > If I run elinks to view an HTML E-Mail via the 'v'iew command I not
> > only get the original colours, I get proper frames for tables etc.
> > rather than ASCII characters. I *suppose* this may be for the same
> > reasons that you have described above for colours but I'm not really
> > sure.
>
> That I don't know. I've never gotten elinks to use line-drawing
> characters for frames in its dump output. Generally, I would expect
> that to be some argument like -dump-charset, but that doesn't work
> with elinks. Those line-drawing characters are why I use w3m instead
> of elinks or any of the other similar programs (w3m seems to have
> better character set support in general).
>
Yes, w3m 'looks' better but since it doesn't offer HTML font colouring
it's not a lot of use to me.
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Chris Green