On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:33:58 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did not follow the rest of the discussion, so sorry if I missed
> something obvious.  But why can't we render HTML parts in replies the
> same way we do in notmuch-show (using `mm-display-part')?  That should
> not introduce a w3m.el requirement, would use the same renderer as
> configured for show and hence would produce consistent output in show
> and reply.

Agreed, that would be good. It could be done as a second stage, though.