Re: my attach this buffer

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>>> "EA" == Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Yes. If you want it to guess correctly you'll have to override the ".m"
>>>> entry in `mailcap-mime-extensions'.
>>> 
>>> There is no ".m" entry!
>>> I just checked this variable is set by good old defvar and not
>>> defcustom, sigh
>
>> You're right! That must be getting picked up from my system somewhere.
>> You should feel free to push your own cons onto this variable, or use a
>> ~/.mime.types file if you want to set this association for more than
>> just Emacs. The contents of that file will get merged with
>> `mailcap-mime-extensions'. I believe the file format is one line per
>> association, looking like:
>
>> .m text/x-foo
>
> That did not work

Oh, maybe it's something else. I just squinted at the parsing code for a
moment.

>> See the docstring and code comments of the `mailcap-parse-mimetypes'
>> function for a bunch of different ways to specify your mimetype
>> associations.
>
> I finally did the following 
>
> (add-to-list 'mailcap-mime-extensions  '(".m" . "text/x-matlab"))
>
> And everything is good.

Great!