Re: HTML Previewer - how to use?
Duncan <[email protected]>
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Jim Henderson posted on Tue, 19 Jul 2022 23:19:25 -0000 (UTC) as excerpted: > I ran across a couple of posts on gmane that were sent from gmail, which > notoriously sends everything in HTML unless you take specific steps > (that most users don't even know about) to send plain-text only. > > I know there'd been some discussion in the past about doing some sort of > HTML rendering (or stripping, ala claws) to deal with situations like > that, but ultimately that discussion didn't really seem to go anywhere. > > In one of the discussions, Duncan mentioned that there's this "HTML > Previewer" setting in the preferences, and I thought I'd take a look at > that, but I'm not familiar enough with the code to track down how to > actually use it. I tried putting html2text in the field, but the field > clears after saving the preferences (I tried with the path and without > it) > - but I also noticed that the down arrow to select other options is also > greyed out (unlike the text editor setting above it). > > Just out of curiosity (more than anything), has anyone either worked out > how to use this or actually gotten it to work? I hadn't tried until now, but looking at the grayed out option while seeing custom command set for the first two (web browser and mail reader) and my custom text-editor (my pan-attach-kd script) set there... I'd guess that the feature may be a stub, either not enabled in my build due to turning off whatever build-time option enables it, or perhaps it's left-over experimental code for a feature that the would-be-feature author never got to work as they liked, left there as a place-holder-reminder that never got removed when their interest in it died. As an alternative, you already mentioned the claws (claws-mail) html- stripping feature, and claws does have a news mode as well. I'm not particularly impressed by claws' news mode in general (tho claws is my preferred for mail and feeds), but for single-shot individual html messages, it might be worthwhile to try, at least. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users