Re: Can't get W3 working for VM

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From: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 02:04

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kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) writes:
> Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <kosowsky@consult.pretender> wrote:
>  > What would I need to do to add a command that would allow *me* to
>  > choose to "farm it out to a GUI web browser" on a message-by-message
>  > basis. 
> 
> It's not possible currently because of VM's display order.  First
> VM attempts internal display of an object and then external display
> and lastly it tries to convert to a type that can be displayed
> either internally or externally.  So if you have an external viewer
> defined, it will be used in preference to doing a type conversion.

Would this not be an interesting feature to add... you can then have
the best of both worlds. First try to get trusty old emacs to work and
then only when it fails bail out to an external browser.

How much VM code would need to be hacked to make this work?

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