pretty-print mutt emails
Robert F. Crochelt
rfc56 at fastmail.com
Tue Nov 23 19:40:31 UTC 2021
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 05:56:44PM +0000, Sam Kuper wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:47:10AM +0000, Globe Trotter via Mutt-users wrote:
> > What is the recommended way to pretty-print mutt emails? I found a
> > sourceforge perl script called muttprint but that was last updated in
> > 2008, and I was wondering what folks here recommended?
>
> On systems without a working muttprint or equivalent, a workaround is to
> pipe the email to stdin of a program with good support (word-wrapping;
> pagination; choice of font) for printing plain text files.
>
> For instance, on GNU/Linux boxes with Gnome, while viewing the email in
> Mutt, press the pipe (vertical bar) key on your keyboard, and then type
> `gedit -` followed by <Enter>. You can then quickly trim headers to
> taste, and use gedit's printing options to choose your desired wrapping,
> pagination, typeface and font size, etc.
>
> --
> A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: When is top-posting a bad thing?
>
> () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary
> /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
Thanks for this tip.
Bob Crochelt
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