Re: [nmh-workers] Formatting HTML to Text: netrik.

[Jude DaShiell]

I'm an old geezer too.  I even go so far as to think people who use
computer mice just by virtue of that use are diminishing their potential
productivity.
In slint and I expect other distributions par and par2cmdline are both
paragraph reformatters.  Slint comes with par already installed by
default.
I need to read up on both since if I can find tools that work better
than fmt and newfmt that will make some of my work easier.

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 01:30:12
> From: Ronald F. Guilmette <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [nmh-workers] Formatting HTML to Text: netrik.
>
> In message <E1hgeXd-0003He-PG@sleekit>,
> Conrad Hughes <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >  - replfilter depends on 'par', which users may not have installed, but
>
> Ummmm... I don't have that either.  What is it and where do I get it?
>
> >Finally, I'd almost be inclined to have nmh-without-replfilter display a
> >message about replfilter, for example maybe in whatnowproc, so after
> >grinding your teeth about the undecoded base64 you at least see a
> >message suggesting a remedy for this after exiting the editor.  I
> >realise though that accurate detection of circumstances where it would
> >be helpful to display such a message might not easy, but it would save a
> >certain amount of repetition.
>
> Seconded.
>
> Some folks... me included... need to be very explicitly knocked upside the
> head in order to make sure that we get the message.
>
> Or maybe replfilter should just become part of the (shipped) default
> configuration.
>
> Lord knows that well over than 50% of all emails I've received over the past
> several years contain either base64 or HTML or both, so that would seem
> to make some sense.
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
>
>
> P.S.  Speaking as a relic of a now long bygone era (which I am), I really
> do wish that all of this base64 and HTNMLized email stuff would get off my
> lawn.  (Yes, I'm an old geezer.)
>
> It all annoys me very much, because I know damn well that all of this stupid
> HTML stuff... which makes all mails about a factor of ten bigger... isn't
> actually carrying any useful additional information that could not have
> been represented and expressed just as well with good old plain text.
>
> But I already lost this battle at least a decade or two ago.  Sigh.  Oh well.
> We live and we adapt.
>
>
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