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diff --git a/configurations/htmlquote.md b/configurations/htmlquote.md index 2e7d2def..630735f9 100644 --- a/configurations/htmlquote.md +++ b/configurations/htmlquote.md @@ -3,19 +3,45 @@ title: "aerc-wiki: Configurations/HTML quoting in replies" --- Sometimes the email you get only has `text/html`. If you quote reply this, the -default [quoted_reply -template](https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/tree/master/item/templates/quoted_reply) -will dump the entire html with all the markup into the quote. You can update -this template to behave differently if replying to html. For example, add the -html filter shipped with aerc to construct a more sensible text to quote: +default [quoted_reply template][quoted_reply] will dump the entire html with +all the markup into the quote. You can update this template to behave +differently if replying to html. For example, add the html filter shipped with +aerc to construct a more sensible text to quote: ``` {{ if eq .OriginalMIMEType "text/html" -}} -{{- trimSignature (exec `~/.local/softwarefromsource/aerc/filters/html` .OriginalText) | quote -}} + {{- trimSignature (exec `~/.local/softwarefromsource/aerc/filters/html` .OriginalText) | quote -}} {{- else -}} -{{- trimSignature .OriginalText | quote -}} + {{- trimSignature .OriginalText | quote -}} {{- end}} ``` +This can be expanded to also properly quote html sent as text/plain and to make +the filtered content more readable by dropping empty lines, links, and leading +whitespace. + +``` +{{ if or + (eq .OriginalMIMEType "text/html") + (contains (toLower .OriginalText) "<html") +}} + {{- $text := exec `/usr/lib/aerc/filters/html` .OriginalText | replace `\r` `` -}} + {{- range split "\n" $text -}} + {{- if eq . "References:" }}{{break}}{{end}} + {{- if or + (eq (len .) 0) + (match `^\[.+\]\s*$` .) + }}{{continue}}{{end}} + {{- printf "%s\n" . | replace `^[\s]+` "" | quote}} + {{- end -}} +{{- else }} + {{- trimSignature .OriginalText | quote -}} +{{- end -}} + +{{.Signature -}} +``` + Note, that since this filter comes with a third-party dependency (w3m), this will not be added to the default template shipped with aerc. + +[quoted_reply]: https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/tree/master/item/templates/quoted_reply |