Re: Q: List Policy
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:20:13PM EST, s. keeling wrote:
> Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com>:
> > > Patrick Wiseman a écrit :
> > > ...
> > >
> > > And why do you send message in text+HTML format to this list ? ;-)
> >
> > Yeah .. it took me a while to figure out how I could get mutt to display
> > the text/plain version rather than the text/html version which ended up
> > a total mess with no indentation.. no ">"'s and naturally no coloring.
>
> Please elaborate? :-)
(1) http://www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fckx/before.png
(2) http://www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fckx/after.png
When hitting <enter> in mutt's index display I was getting some rather
messy rendering of the html version of the message via "urlview->elinks"
as demonstrated by the "before" (1) screenshot above.
I had lived with this annoyance for ages but decided it was time to do
something about it.
I googled for a while and not coming up with anything useful, I posted to
the mutt mailing list and s/o knew immediately what I was talking about
and advised I add the following to my .muttrc:
alternative_order text/plain text/html
.. and read the fine manual, of course.
This apparently did the trick -- see the (2) screenshot.
Now I can tell right away who says what, thanks to the ">"'s and ">>"'s
and everything is correctly indented.. icing on the cake, my "coloring"
choices -- more like different shades of gray -- make it easier to read
through the message at a glance.
Now that I had the proper keyword .. "alternative_order" I googled
further and found some interesting posts that give me a feeling that
there's more to it than what I implemented .. but since it works for me
so far, I decided that I have no time to become a mail expert just now
and will keep it on the back burner to investigate further is other
messages start causing trouble.
Sorry about my earlier post being cryptic.
Thanks!
CJ
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