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Subject: Re: Trouble viewing PDF attachments (with patches)
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peder@news.klingenberg.no (Peder O. Klingenberg) writes:

> On on., des. 31 2014 at 09:20, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> Thanks for digging into this! I've been annoyed by the same problem for
>> quite a while, though obviously not annoyed enough to actually go
>> looking for the problem. I hope your solution or something like it is
>> accepted!
>
> Thanks.  As a workaround, you could always do some surgery to
> mailcap-mime-data in your init file, and remove doc-view-mode.

Hmm, I haven't removed that entry, but I do have earlier entries keyed
to "pdf" that point to xdg-open. Still doesn't use it, though...

> (It would be nice to have a good interface to manipulate that variable,
> including some control over which viewer is preferred, but generally it
> just works well enough as is, so I don't know if it would be worth the
> effort.)
>
> ...Peder...