[mew-int 3178] Re: Suggested method for reading HTML in Emacs?

[Christophe TROESTLER <[email protected]> (2013-04-19 06:46:32 UTC)]

> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:14:35 +0200, Petter Gustad wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > What is the suggested method/setup to read HTML multiparts in an Emacs
> > frame?
> > 
> > I'm using Emacs 24.2.1 and Mew 6.5.
> 
> You need to install w3m and add something like the following to your
> ~/.emacs.d/init.el […]

An alternative approach should be possible with recent emacsen:

Decode the html with libxml-parse-html-region (which is a C builtin,
available since 24.2 provided libxml2 is found at configure time),
then display the result using shr-insert-document in an empty buffer.
I have verified that these functions produce an acceptable result in
many cases. However, I don't understand mew internals well enough to
implement it. I think a solution that does not rely on external
libraries is desirable. Does anybody feel like trying their hand at
writing the necessary code?

– Harald