Question for mail/nmh users

Bakul Shah bakul at bitblocks.com
Wed Jul 3 22:39:52 UTC 2019


On Wed, 03 Jul 2019 15:28:56 -0700 Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com> wrote:
> As of today mail/nmh has a new radio button option to select a 
> text-based browser for HTML rendering. At present none of the options 
> are default however there was a proposal from our upstream to make one, 
> preferably w3m, default. The reason for this is to provide some kind of 
> HTML rendering by default for pkgng users while ports users can still 
> disable all browser options for a minimal install.
>
> Building nmh in a clean jail, the w3m option will for example install 
> www/w3m and three or four other dependent ports/packages required by 
> w3m.
>
> Thoughts anyone?

Defaulting to w3m would be great. This is what I use:

$ grep -B 1 w3m ~/.mh_profile
mhshow-show-text/html: charset=%{charset};
  w3m ${charset:+-I $charset} -T text/html %F

Thanks!


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