[PLUG] Emacs: remove html tags

[Tomas Kuchta]

Try external html2txt.

-T

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 09:01 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> My web search found many hits on exporting emacs buffers to html but not
> how
> to remove all tags in one fell swoop.
>
> I tried using regex search-and-replace (ctrl-shift-alt-%) but that
> highlighted everything and I can't use metacharacters (.*) with regular
> search and replace (meta-%).
>
> I thought there might be a way to save the buffer without the tags, but the
> file was exported from alpine as temp.tmp so emacs doesn't recognize it as
> an html file.
>
> It's a small file but on occasion I have larger e-mail messages in html
> format that need to be read.
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
> Rich
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