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Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

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> 2. Can I use gnome-open for this sort of thing? It's basically its own
>    little mime parser, and knows all the system defaults, and if I'm
>    going to pass a file to something outside of gnus/emacs, gnome-open
>    knows best what to do with it. Setting gnome-open in my .mailcap file
>    just gives me "Displaying /usr/bin/gnome-open
>    /tmp/emm.5971frN/IMG_3368.JPG...done" in the minibuffer, and then
>    nothing happens.

In fact, what I'd really like to do is short-circuit all the "view
externally" commands so they go straight to gnome-open…