[Techtalk] pdfs and mutt

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:04:16AM -0500, Mary wrote:
> So, when you say coloured HTML mail, do you mean like this:
> Hello, this word is red.
>                      ^
>                      |
>                 this word has red letters

This one.

> If the former, something aside from lynx (w3m maybe) was being called by
> you /etc/mailcap to do this.

It was just the auto_view set in mutt

> If you take the lynx stuff out of your ~/.mailcap file, I presume the
> coloured text comes back. what happens when you reply to the message?

> F^HF.^H.Y^HY.^H.I^HI.^H.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^the line is properly quoted, but between each letter is
the character ^H (note it's a backspace character not an individual ^ +
H). When I have the lines in .mailcap for lynx it spits out proper text
when I reply. That string should read > F.Y.I.

emma

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