Re: Never automatically display HTML in an email

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> The "Using MIME" and "MIME Commands" sections
>> of the Gnus manual get you part-way there,
>> but then you fall down the rabbit-hole of the
>> separate "Emacs MIME" manual, and there goes
>> your Thursday night. I eventually got mad and
>> hit it with a hammer:
>>
>> (setq mailcap-mime-data '(("application"
>> (".*" (viewer . "xdg-open %s")))))
>>
>> But occasionally that still causes errors and
>> complaints about a lack of a "text/plain"
>> part or something like that, I'm still too
>> annoyed to go and figure out what's going on.
>> Attempts to "follow the code" result in
>> near-instant headaches.
>
> Well good work anyway and don't loose any
> Thursday nights on my behalf at least :)

Oh I won't :) But I doubt I'll really ever figure this stuff out.