From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85597 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Recent Emacs doesn't respect my mailcap Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:54:54 -0500 Message-ID: <841tmf7jpt.fsf@davestoy.home> References: <87386xf5gx.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87386xdmzp.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87h9vdc7cn.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87egqhrmzv.fsf@gmx.us> <87a915c5an.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87ppa1rkp7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87386xc4fh.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87fvawri03.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878ugobzjs.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87lhkoq081.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422410170 3775 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2015 01:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 01:56:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33838@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 28 02:56:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YGHrN-0005hR-10 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:56:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1YGHqs-0007DD-3m; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:55:30 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1YGHqp-0007Cu-Tb for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:55:27 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YGHql-0006Tu-8w for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:55:27 -0600 Original-Received: from vms173023pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.23]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YGHqj-00079n-Fb for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:55:21 +0100 Original-Received: from davestoy.home.verizon.net ([71.184.207.237]) by vms173023.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0NIV00GAW6NISDJ0@vms173023.mailsrvcs.net> for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:54:55 -0600 (CST) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=LrklEcZZ c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=07JiPSs/1fT+i408Ag/iAg==:117 a=fXlXmMNnqqcA:10 a=AesOsg4oJXAA:10 a=o1OHuDzbAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=-9mUelKeXuEA:10 a=YNv0rlydsVwA:10 a=OocQHUDgAAAA:8 a=qbX9SruPAAAA:8 a=AaRXHV1L5gKrHkKJwj4A:9 X-Face: W!bie|rYVd43O:2CkHTb*~s5}Yzx30X<@6Tq_bnP56Hp!xX4sVl4tgYRirjRcke\wfY!JJ9 i?]VIUJicJzq2\!3%7$5R%wi!R[.]Va97q In-reply-to: <87lhkoq081.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:08:46 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85597 Archived-At: > Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> Eric Abrahamsen writes: >> >>> Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: >>> >>>> Eric Abrahamsen writes: >>>> >>>>> In my use case, I've already told Gnus to view the PDF externally by >>>>> using `gnus-article-view-part-externally'. Given that, and the fact that >>>>> I've specified an external viewer in ~/.mailcap, it seems a little >>>>> perverse that I'm still stuck seeing it in Doc View. If I wanted to do >>>>> that, I could have just called `gnus-article-view-part'! >>>> >>>> That does sound like a bug. Perhaps that command should filter out all >>>> Lisp functions from `mailcap-mime-data'? >>> >>> Or put ~/.mailcap stuff at the front of the list, or maybe just don't >>> re-sort mailcap-mime-data. I don't think anything fancy needs to be done >>> -- it should be enough just to *not* mess with mailcap-mime-data. >> >> The `-externally' command should work different from the other command, >> shouldn't it? Otherwise, what's the point of having two of these >> commands? > > Good point! > So I've been silently grumbling about this issue for a couple months, but I've just gotten used to calling ...-view-part-interactively (from the context menu) and running acrobat reader. docview is really not an option at work (where most of my PDF dealings come from) since my company uses some of the more irritating PDF features like digital signatures. Whether that's done via view-part or view-part-externally (assuming there's a strong desire to have view-part favor an internal function) doesn't bother me but it would be nice if view-part-externally did what I told it to do. Thanks, -- Dave Goldberg david.goldberg6@verizon.net