Re: Functional requirements for Gnus

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> Jean-Yves Perrier <perrier@nagra-kudelski.ch> writes:
> 
> > > I haven't seen it mentioned but I think mailcap/mimetype support is
> > > fundamental.
> >
> > Yes, but it should be overridable inside Gnus: that way I can have
> > specific setting for Gnus only: the mailcap would be a default
> > value.
> 
> The mailcap file format allows for client specific settings.
> 
> image/gif: xv %s; \
> 	x-gnus=mime-show-inline-gif; \
> 	description="GIF Image"
> 
> You could also have different Gnus settings for Emacs/XEmacs.

  Emacs/W3 already deals with all the parsing and crap for mailcap and
mimetypes files, and allows you to specify lisp-viewers from within a
mailcap file.  Right now it uses 'is the first character of the viewer a
quote' to determine if it should be treated as an internal function.

  I could change this to x-emacs-viewer or something like that pretty
easily.  The appropriate file in Emacs/W3 is mm.el - it can be drastically
improved pretty easily, and it is already signed over to the FSF since
1996. :)

-Bill P.