[6789] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Apr 6 03:03:38 1998
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 03:03:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: "Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@MIT.EDU> MIT Class of '98" <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199804010422.XAA28623@starkiller.MIT.EDU>
Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you.. I had a busy week.
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@MIT.EDU> MIT Class of '98 wrote:
> 1) the command line used for htmlview is incorrect.
>
You will be happy to know that this error is specific to your
.exmh-defaults file, and does not affect the exmh installation in
general. Go to the "WWW" section of "Preferences", and remove
the "-install" from the name of the netscape command. (My best
guess for how it got there would be that one of the version upgrades
had some funky code for keeping the user's old netscapeCmd flags
when updating to the new value for the base path of the netscapeCmd
that I put in.)
> 2) Exmh should ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY NOT start a web browser unless *I*
> tell it to (which I assuredly will *never* do). I cannot find any
> preference controlling this "feature."
I agree. (Consider the rlog for the file
/afs/sipb/project/sipb/src/exmh/exmh-2.0.2/lib/mime.tcl )
Exmh is currently configured to show text/html MIME content inline.
For some reason, though, your message causes it to launch
whatever WWW viewer you have configured in the "WWW" preferences
panel. I believe that this is because the html tries to do
frames, but I'm not sure. I feel that the having "htmlveiw" as
the Netscape command is the proper thing to do, and having
Netscape configured as the default URL viewer is the right thing
to do, because that means that users will be able to click on
highlighted hyperlinks and have the right thing happen.
I'm less convinced that having exmh render html inline is the
right thing to do. I'm a little uneasy about it, but felt that
it was a mostly okay thing to do, since I thought exmh's HTML
capabilities were weak enough to not cause trouble.
I'll send a message to the exmh developers, suggesting that they
implement something similar to mime(showImage) for URL's.
However, if you will never want to see exmh doing weird HTML
stuff on you, I suggest that you do what I do: add two lines to
your .exmh-defaults file:
! I don't want exmh doing html stuff.
exmh*mime_text/html: Mime_ShowText
exmh*mime_text/x-html: Mime_ShowText
Sincerely,
-Jacob
