Re: View docx/doc documents from Gnus in Docview

["Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>]

Andrew Cohen <acohen@ust.hk> writes:

> Sorry for not replying sooner (I am swamped with real work and have
> little time for other things); I have had this working for myself so I
> thought I can provide some advice.
>
> Firstly, telling gnus to use doc-view for these documents is easy: you
> need to modify the variable 'mailcap-user-mime-data (which controls user
> overrides for various mime types). Here is an example (this will use
> doc-view-mode for mime types of ms-excel and
> openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document, and use eww for
> html.) You should modify this for your own needs:
>
> (setq mailcap-user-mime-data
>     '(((viewer . doc-view-mode)
>        (test   . window-system)
>        (type . "application/vnd.ms-excel"))
>       ((viewer . doc-view-mode)
>        (test   . window-system)
>        (type . "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document"))
>       ((viewer . eww)
>        (test   . (fboundp 'eww))
>        (type   . "text/html"))))
>
> But unfortunately this won't work properly due to a deficiency in
> doc-view. Doc-view has only a fairly primitive mechanism for figuring
> out the type of the document; since docx documents are mostly zip
> archives, and many other file formats are also zip archives, doc-view
> will notice they are zip files and treat them as epub (for me, at
> least).  The right way to fix this is to smarten up doc-view to
> correctly identify the file type. This isn't hard, but I don't have time
> to do it right now (maybe someone else is willing?).  In the meantime
> you can use the following hack which works for me: replace the function
> 'doc-view-set-doc-type with the modified version below.

Thanks that's exactly what I was looking for. I assumed since docview
can detect docx in dired in can do so in Gnus.

Docview is just ok, I would prefer something like pdf-tools for docx/odt
but I see those kind of file types so rare.