Re: defining external http viewer for GNUS

[Rainer M. Krug]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:
>
>>> Ok, I see.  I think this should do the trick (untested):
>>>
>>> (add-to-list 'mm-text-html-renderer-alist
>>>          '(conqueror mm-inline-render-with-file
>>>                      nil "conqueror" file))
>>> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'conqueror)
>>>
>>> Then, `K H' should open conqueror with the mail.
>>
>> Thanks a lot - we are getting somwhere - the message is opened in
>> conkeror (spelling error in my original email), but always. Which
>> makes sense, as mm-text-html-renderer specifies how html emails should
>> be rendered.
>
> Ah, right.
>
>> I would very much prefer the K H approach, where the mai is displayed
>> in emacs, and that I can open it in the external renderer (conkeror).
>
> Ok, next try.
>
> (add-to-list 'mm-text-html-renderer-alist
>            '(conkeror mm-inline-render-with-file
>                       nil "conkeror" file))
>
> (defun rainers-gnus-article-browse-html-article (&optional arg)
>   "Like `gnus-article-browse-html-article', but open the mail
> with conkeror instead of the default web browser."
>   (interactive "P")
>   (let ((mm-text-html-renderer 'conkeror))
>     (gnus-article-browse-html-article arg)))
>
> (gnus-define-keys (gnus-summary-mime-map "K" gnus-summary-mode-map)
>   "H" rainers-gnus-article-browse-html-article)
>
> I've tried it, but when I hit `K H' the mail is opened in my default
> browser (chromium) instead of conkeror (I actually replaced conkeror
> with firefox above, because I don't have conkeror installed).
>
> What's strange is that `mm-inline-render-with-file' is never called.  I
> wanted to edebug it, but when I do `K H' I'm not put into the edebugger.
> I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...

If I use your code, the mail is opened in conkerer, but emacs is
unresponsive, and when I close conkeror, the message is opened again in
my default browser and again in conkeror - strange.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Bye,
> Tassilo


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