search

purebred-mua / purebred

A terminal based mail user agent based on notmuch
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
139 stars 19 forks source link

Attachment "autoviews" #387

Open romanofski opened 4 years ago

romanofski commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Attachments which can be handled in the terminal should be showed directly in the mail view body. At this point in time the AST can not represent any attachments.

For example, if I want to see the textual output of an MS word document and register either pandoc or antiword as a handler, I

a) still need to actually navigate and open the attachment and b) since it's not piped through a pager I can only see as much as my terminal is high.

Describe the solution you'd like I think we should also show attachments in the mailview. Perhaps keep them folded by default to avoid always piping and parsing the entire mail with it's sometimes gigantic attachments. On request we can unfold the attachments so it's an easy keypress to see all.

Describe alternatives you've considered Alternatively - perhaps in a separate card - either support piping through a pager, or better: show the output of the command in a viewport (see UI.Help.Main.hs as an example).

Additional context None

frasertweedale commented 4 years ago

So let's keep it simple to begin with: a list (or list-like structure) of inline entities (pre-processed; ready for presentation). Use the mailcap data to grub out entities for inline display (but at most one branch of a multipart/alternative message).

So, things to skip for the initial cut: folding, deferred processing.