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Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email

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Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email

#42

Post by School-Cotton »

ndegruchy wrote: post #8
kemiller wrote: post #3

I miss using a TUI for mail but it looks like they haven’t really solved the most important reason I don’t, which is rendering HTML emails.

Emacs (even on the TTY), can do a decent job of rendering markup using it's built in EWW browser. Works pretty well, at least for most of the content I'm looking for. Using it with Notmuch or mu4e is not the easiest thing to do, but it works pretty solidly.

For when eww doesn't work, this snippet will let you type "c v" in a notmuch mail buffer to render the html content of an email in an external browser:

    (defun btv/notmuch-browse-html ()
      (interactive "")
      (let ((html-part (seq-find
                        (lambda (elt)
                          (pcase-let ((`(,begin ,end ,props) elt))
                            (let* ((part (plist-get props :notmuch-part))
                                   (type
                                    (or (plist-get part :computed-type)
                                        (plist-get part :content-type))))
                              (and (equal type "text/html")
                                   begin))))
                        (object-intervals (current-buffer)))))
        (when html-part
          (save-excursion
            (goto-char (1+ (car html-part)))
            (notmuch-show-view-part)))))
    
    (add-hook 'notmuch-show-mode-hook
              (lambda ()            
                (define-key notmuch-show-stash-map "v" 'btv/notmuch-browse-html)))

Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email

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Post by superkuh »

This is the first I've read of "TUI" standing for what I have to assume is "terminal user interface"? I'd call them CLI (command line interface). When did this TUI acronym start? What does it mean? Everyone else seems to know it and use it without defining.

Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email

#49

Post by syntaxing »

superkuh wrote: post #46

This is the first I've read of "TUI" standing for what I have to assume is "terminal user interface"? I'd call them CLI (command line interface). When did this TUI acronym start? What does it mean? Everyone else seems to know it and use it without defining.

I dont know when it exactly started but I've heard and use this term at least 15 years. CLI != TUI. TUI is more like a "standard" window (GUI) but all text based.
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