Re: using lynx rather than w3 to display text/html internally

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From: Pete Forman
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:49

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sondeen@isi.edu (jeff sondeen) writes:

 > can someone give me the incantations to let 'vm' (version 7.05
 > in emacs 20.7.1) display text/html inside the INBOX Presentation
 > window by using the output of 'lynx -force_html -dump %f' rather
 > than using vm's built-in internal verbatum text.

The last time I used lynx it did not support -stdin.  Here's what I
used:

(setq vm-mime-type-converter-alist '(("text/html" "text/plain"
  "lynx -force_html -dump /dev/stdin")))

The name of the device will depend on the OS you are using.

Under W2k I found it necessary to switch to W3M which supports stdin
properly.  Tables are handled better too :-)

(setq vm-mime-type-converter-alist '(("text/html" "text/plain"
   "d:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html")))

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From: Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com>
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Subject: Re: using lynx rather than w3 to display text/html internally
Date: 24 May 2002 16:49:11 +0100
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