Giving priority to wildcard MIME types

Giving priority to wildcard MIME types

[Dave Abrahams]

So, mailcap-mime-data comes prepopulated with all kinds of stuff that's
not appropriate for any normal installation on my platform (Mac OS X),
and I want to override it all by using wildcards in my ~/.mailcap file:

,----[ .mailcap ]
| # After editing: `M-x mailcap-parse-mailcaps'
| 
| */*; open %s
| application/*; open %s
`----

The problem is, mailcap-possible-viewers is designed to always list the
non-wildcard matches (which are in mailcap-mime-data) first, which means
I have to manually create “open %s” lines in ~/.mailcap for each mime
type in that list.  There's got to be a better way... doesn't there?

-- 
-Dave

Re: Giving priority to wildcard MIME types

[Adam Sjøgren]

Dave writes:

> The problem is, mailcap-possible-viewers is designed to always list the
> non-wildcard matches (which are in mailcap-mime-data) first, which means
> I have to manually create “open %s” lines in ~/.mailcap for each mime
> type in that list.  There's got to be a better way... doesn't there?

I think this was discussed recently¹, leading to:

 · https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22684


  Best regards,

    Adam


¹: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18079/


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