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Subject: Re: BUG: mm-display-external requires an xterm
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Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes:

> When mm-display-external decides that a mailcap entry needs a
> terminal, it unconditionally fires off "xterm".  There are two
> problems:
> 
> 1) It tries to run the xterm even if window-system is nil.
> 
>    My mailcap has text/html being shown with lynx.  If I'm running
>    emacs within an xterm, shouldn't emacs just temporarily shell out
>    to lynx?

I've fixed it in the Gnus CVS. term.el is used for running lynx.

> 1) What if I want rxvt instead?  Or maybe ETerm?  Perhaps there should
>    be a gnus-external-terminal variable.  This is minor.

mm-external-terminal-program is added.

ShengHuo