[mew-int 00731] Re: automatic display of attachments

[Eduard Werner]

From: Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 00730] Re: automatic display of attachments
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 19:28:31 +0900 (JST)

Thank you for your quick response

> From: "PD Dr. Edward Wornar" <edi at example.com>
> Subject: [mew-int 00729] automatic display of attachments

> I'm using "wv" to display WORD documents in the Message buffer. Of
> course, I can cite it when replying.

How do you do that?
 
> > keystrokes.) When replying with 'A', the decoded text should
> > be in place to make it easier to reply. (There is a lot of secretaries
> > out there sending their whole mails as word attachment, making my
> > life considerably harder than it could be :-(
> 
> I don't understand that you can display WORD documents in the Message
> buffer from this sentence. Mew can cite anything displayed in the
> Message buffer. So, I guess you can't display it in the Message
> buffer, either.

I can't display word documents. Inserting in the message buffer
inserts the mime part undecoded and I don't know how to pipe the mime part
to an external command automatically.
 
> > (setq mew-prog-msword/*-ext "antiword")
> > (setq mew-prog-msword/*-ext-arg '(("-m 8859-2.txt")))
> 
> I have not used "antiword". 
> 
> Mew assumes that output from mew-prog-msword/*-ext is encoded with
> UTF-8. I don't know about "antiword".

Antiword takes a word file or stdin and displays the contents to a file/terminal/stdout.
Output format is configurable (but ISO-latin-* is fine for me). However, the
above lines seem to give mi no output at all.

> Please give a look at mew.dot.emacs included in Mew 2.2rc4 for better
> WORD life.

I did, but it didn't help. I didn't find anything word-related in there :-(
BTW, the link on the mew homepage to mew-2.2rc3.tar.gz is broken. (I downloaded
mew-2.2rc4.tar.gz via ftp.)

Best

Edi