[sf-lug] HTML, <PRE></PRE>, <-- -->, email & mime encoded ...

[Akkana Peck]

Rick Moen writes, in response to Michael Paoli's htmlquote utility:
> For quoting/unquoting HTML, I tend to just swear a bit and haul out
> sed/awk, but a brief search unearthed recode(1) as a likely time-saver.

I'm usually in emacs, editing an HTML file, when I want something
like Michael's htmlquote script, so I keep this in .emacs:

;; Run this on a region inside a <pre> to convert chars like < into entities.
(defun unhtml (start end)
  (interactive "r")
  (save-excursion
    (save-restriction
      (narrow-to-region start end)
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (replace-string "&" "&")
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (replace-string "<" "<")
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (replace-string ">" ">")
      )))

        ...Akkana