From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79959 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: viewing `application/octet-stream' MIME parts Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:05:41 +0200 Message-ID: <877h52divu.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> References: <871uvbdlm9.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> <877h530y2b.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316552795 8985 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2011 21:06:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:06:35 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28253@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 20 23:06:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R67WO-0005bU-9Q for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:06:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R67Vy-00033t-Nq; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:06:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R67Vw-00033l-Bs for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:06:00 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R67Vu-0001Cv-VT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:05:59 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R67Vr-0002q9-Mg for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:05:55 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R67Vr-0005Ll-JJ for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:05:55 +0200 Original-Received: from arennes-651-1-356-110.w2-14.abo.wanadoo.fr ([2.14.195.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:05:55 +0200 Original-Received: from pmlists by arennes-651-1-356-110.w2-14.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:05:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: arennes-651-1-356-110.w2-14.abo.wanadoo.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Lciex7JiMBMJKcDFLLQsJjt0GxY= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79959 Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 20 2011, Adam Sjøgren wrote: > I usually use "View interactively (v)" and tell Gnus what viewer to > use, Did you try it? When I enter "pdftotext %s -", nothing happens > or use "View as type (t)", where Gnus often guesses the type correctly. Indeed, this works. But IMO, Gnus should use the mailcap entry for application/octet-stream just the same way as any other entry. So the question is, why doesn't Gnus use this mailcap entry? Nevertheless, thanks for the "View as type", it's a nice workaround! > It happens seldom enough that I use the mouse and right-click on the > attachment, I'm afraid. For me it happens never, always TAB and RET... (the mouse is too far away) ;) -- Peter