Re: K v uses eeyes, even though mailcap uses xzgv (Was: OORT.jpg)

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> grossjoh@lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Großjohann):

> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>> My ~/.mailcap contains the line:
>> 	image/*; /usr/bin/xzgv %s
>> 
>> But that setting doesn't seem to "take".  What could I be doing wrong? 

> If your .mailcap contains an image/* entry but the system mailcap
> contains an image/gif entry, then the system entry will be taken for
> image/gif.

Ah.  /etc/mailcap was full of "image/jpeg", "image/png", etc. using
eeyes (which I btw haven't installed).

> I hate this.

No, the behaviour doesn't seem logical.  Is this behaviour mandated by
the mailcap RFC?  Is it the practice of other programs using the
mailcap file (eg. Netscape)?  Or is it just the MIME library used by
Gnus? 

If it is the latter, perhaps one should file a bug report?

> Workaround: put image/gif, image/png, ... in .mailcap.

I put "image/jpeg; /usr/bin/xzgv %s" in ~/.mailcap, did
`M-x mailcap-parse-mailcaps RET', and then `2 K v' on the article, and
the Oort showed up in xzgv.

Thanx!  :-)