Re: undo mailcap viewer
On 2003-12-09, Spiro Trikaliotis <trik-news@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Only if you have "pipe_decode" set, which by default it is not. If
you haven't changed the default setting, or if you unset it, "|less"
will work just fine.
Gary
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