Re: Good things to put in mailcap-mime-data for NT?

[Rod Whitby <list.ding@rwhitby.net>]

Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:
> Rod Whitby <list.ding@rwhitby.net> writes:
> > Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:
> > > Anyone that has some nice elisp/data to add to mailcap-mime-data for
> > > usage on WinNT?
> 
> [...]
> > What I do on XEmacs/NT to get around the whole problem of deciding
> > which application to launch is to get Windows to decide for me:
> [...]
> > (defun mailcap-mswindows-shell-execute ()
> [...]
> > 	(mswindows-shell-execute "open" file)    
> 
> Is that a function that comes with XEmacs? I couldn't find it in
> NTEmacs/Gnus (I can't say wich version I use since I'm not at my
> office on a sunday evening...). Otherwise ot looks good code.

Yes, that's an XEmacs function.  But it should be available on all NT
Emacsen (or should be easy for someone to add if it's not).  I believe
it pretty much maps straight to a single Windows call.

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