is it possible to have two options for viewing html mail?

[Globe Trotter]

On Sunday, October 25, 2020, 5:53:20 PM CDT, raf <mutt at raf.org> wrote: 





On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 12:18:26AM +0000, Globe Trotter via Mutt-users <mutt-users at mutt.org> wrote:


> On Saturday, 24 October at 22:54, Mutt Users wrote:
> 
> >> Lots of people send me mail in HTML format (even though I do not like it). I have the following set up in my .mailcap:
> >> text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput
> >> so it converts things using w3m more or less okay, however, I am wondering is it possible to have an option for viewing using midori/firefox for the cases where w3m is not enough?
> 
> 
> > I've got this in my mailcap:
> 
> 
> > text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput; print = qutebrowser %s; nametemplate=%s.html
> 
> > To open an email in w3m press Enter, in qutebrowser p or whatever print is bound to. You can adapt this for firefox.
> 
> > Hope that helps.
> > Regards Wim
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> This solution does exactly what I want. I wanted to use midori, so I replaced qutebrowser with midori and it works. 
> 
> Is it possible to have multiple options? So, in case midori did not cut it, I would use firefox instead?
> 
> TIA!


Rather than invoking actual browsers directly, you
could write a script that presented you with a list of
options, and you enter your choice. That way, you could
have more that two options. If always having to select
a browser manually is too inefficient, you could
continue to invoke w3m when viewing html, and invoke
this menu-based browser chooser when "printing" html.

cheers,
raf




Thanks, where would this option be presented? While I press "p"? Is the script in mutt or a bash/python/perl/etc script?