From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When is a text file not a text file? Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 19:48:37 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073681339 10444 80.91.224.253 (9 Jan 2004 20:48:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 09 21:48:55 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Af3Yt-0002zv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:48:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Af2oP-0001HS-Ml for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:00:53 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-139-057.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-139-057.arcor-ip.net (145.254.139.57) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1073674199 8715525 145.254.139.57 ([87814]) X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$; PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6; Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e/6JZ1xJC8ZAAnO1sM8UnDVr+To= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119936 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15868 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15868 sebyte writes: >> 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*. [...] > 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 [...] > 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. [...] Untested: You could also try to call (ansi-color-apply-on-region (point-min) (point-max)) on a buffer containing such ANSI control sequences (after a `(require 'ansi-color)' that is). Oliver -- 20 Nivôse an 212 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!