Re: MIME parts not saved

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> Unfortunately this also means that eog will stop displaying the
>> image if the file is deleted.
>
> For the present Gnus code, it starts the timer when Gnus detects
> that the external viewer process exits.

With current git Gnus, I just tried hitting 'e' on a jpg attachment,
which on my system runs the imagemagick display command, and I also
tried running `v eog RET', to manually run eog, and in both cases Gnus
didn't start the 1 minute timer until I quit the viewer.  So this is
working correctly.

Based on the behavior of older versions of Gnus, I had thought that the
timer started right after viewing started.  With the new procedure,
things work fine with eog.

I still anticipate problems, as there are many viewers that hand the
work off to another process and then exit immediately.  For example, if
I want to view an html attachment in google-chrome while I have an
existing google-chrome running, the new process sends a message to the
existing process and then exits.

And programs like xdg-open and gnome-open do the same thing.

So I'd still prefer to leave the temporary files around for much
longer.

Thanks so much for all you have done!  Things are much better than they
were before your improvements.

Dan