From: sebyte <sdt133@netscape.net>
Subject: Re: When is a text file not a text file?
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:17:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <RgCLb.12536$tQ6.306982@wards.force9.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uvfnlihii.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de>
> What "tags" are these? I don't know the actual program you are
> using. But I seem to recall that I once had a program "html2text" or
> "htmltotxt" or whatever that procuced a text file as output
> *containing ANSI escape sequences for colours*.
>
> Could that be the case? It would explain why dumping such a file on
> the tty---unlike visiting it with a text editor---would display it
> correctly.
>
> If this *is* the case, then you probably could do something with
> ansi-color.el, though I don't know offhand how exactly.
>
> Oliver
Hi Oliver,
Thanks for your time. Here's an example of html2text's output, displayed in an
Emacs buffer:
C^HCo^Hop^Hpy^Hyr^Hri^Hig^Hgh^Hht^Ht n^Hno^Hot^Hti^Hic^Hce^He:^H: All
reader-contributed material on freshmeat.net is the
property and responsibility of its author; for reprint rights, please contact
the author directly.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let me repeat that: OS X is not Unix.
Consider the following: all of Apple.com's
_^Hm_^Ha_^Hr_^Hk_^He_^Ht_^Hi_^Hn_^Hg_^H _^Hp_^Ha_^Hg_^He_^Hs on the subject of
their darling new operating system are extremely careful to note that OS X is
"_^HU_^HN_^HI_^HX_^H-_^Hb_^Ha_^Hs_^He_^Hd".
Here is how it looks on a tty or in an Emacs *shell* buffer:
Copyright notice: All reader-contributed material on freshmeat.net is the
property and responsibility of its author; for reprint rights, please contact
the author directly.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let me repeat that: OS X is not Unix.
Consider the following: all of Apple.com's marketing pages on the subject of
their darling new operating system are extremely careful to note that OS X is
"UNIX-based".
I had thought that they might be remnants of HTML tags, (I must admit I didn't
look very closely), but I have found out since they are actually ANSI 'backspace
control sequences', used to preserve things like underlining and boldface. The
html2text option '-nobs' gets rid of them.
(After days spent looking for information, I discovered that html2text comes
with a manpage and all was revealed. DOH!)
sebyte
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-09 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-02 17:24 When is a text file not a text file? sebyte
2004-01-09 9:43 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-01-09 18:17 ` sebyte [this message]
2004-01-09 18:48 ` Oliver Scholz
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