Re: Recent Emacs doesn't respect my mailcap

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> In my use case, I've already told Gnus to view the PDF externally by
>>> using `gnus-article-view-part-externally'. Given that, and the fact that
>>> I've specified an external viewer in ~/.mailcap, it seems a little
>>> perverse that I'm still stuck seeing it in Doc View. If I wanted to do
>>> that, I could have just called `gnus-article-view-part'!
>>
>> That does sound like a bug.  Perhaps that command should filter out all
>> Lisp functions from `mailcap-mime-data'?
>
> Or put ~/.mailcap stuff at the front of the list, or maybe just don't
> re-sort mailcap-mime-data. I don't think anything fancy needs to be done
> -- it should be enough just to *not* mess with mailcap-mime-data.

The `-externally' command should work different from the other command,
shouldn't it?  Otherwise, what's the point of having two of these
commands?

This code is so old it's hard to remember what the rationale for all
this may have been.  Perhaps people used to have huge ~/.mailcap files
installed by other programs, and that meant that all the nice internal
Emacs commands for dealing with stuff never got called?

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