Hi,

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On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 12:07:27PM +0000, Conrad Hughes via Lynx-dev wrote:
> Glad you could reproduce :)
> 
> > … that makes no sense (lynx is a browser, after all, and you can
> > use the extensions menu to make it open links in other browser),
> > until we come to…
> 
> My use case is that I read email using a 50-year-old (!) text-only mail
> client called MH/nmh, and as more and more messages abandon plaintext in
> favour of HTML-only content I've found that 'lynx -dump' is by far the
> best way to render that HTML as plain text (for which, thank you!).  By
> rendering with lynx I can then easily and extremely quickly skim through
> a hundred inlined emails in a single pager session; having full URLs
> present in the text is then super useful, enabling me to open links if
> absolutely necessary.

mutt user here :)

(formerly even elm, AFAIR)

As such I can relate.

Though I don't recall whether I had ever heard of nmh.
(but that's the beauty of a very diverse ecosystem -
"everything possible, sometimes slightly less featureful")


And yes, doing lynx -dump, too.
Though I've been bitten by Micro$oft-Office-originating
HTML encoding mis-attribution (read, CORRUPTION) recently
(see my recent ML discussions I believe).


It's very important that many users try to
keep up reporting/maintenance of
even some of the more obscure components in this universe.



> hundred inlined emails

Yeah, that's basically the very same use case effect as with
git log -p or git show, where one can extremely quickly search through
massive chunks of SCM history, as opposed to
that abomination called Micro$oft TFS, which
in case of non-committed state only allows for
right-click-context-menu-analyse this-item that-item item-#399
(providing perfect guarantee towards mouse-induced RSI).
"Usability who?"

Greetings

Andreas Mohr

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