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Re: undo mailcap viewer



Hello Michael,

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:50:10PM +0100, Michael Tatge wrote:
> * On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 Mike Arrison (arrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> >     I have w3m setup in my mailcap file to autoview html emails.  This
> >     is all well and good, but sometimes I'd like to see the plaintext of
> >     the html (usually just for kicks). Could I write a macro to switch
> >     from using w3m to just paging the plaintext?

> why don't you just pipe the message to less?

One reason might be because doing a "|less" results in the preprocessed
mail going through less, not the raw one, resulting in almost the same
view as before.

Spiro.

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