Question for mail/nmh users

Cy Schubert Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com
Thu Jul 4 03:17:18 UTC 2019


In message <20190703223929.31FAD156E429 at mail.bitblocks.com>, Bakul Shah 
writes:
> On Wed, 03 Jul 2019 15:28:56 -0700 Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com> wr
> ote:
> > 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

Even though I'd usually want to wait for more responses and considering 
that 2019Q3 hasn't been branched yet, I think I'll commit this sooner 
than later.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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