* gnus-dired-attach: default mime-type application/octet-stream, why
@ 2014-07-20 21:24 Uwe Brauer
2015-01-28 4:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Uwe Brauer @ 2014-07-20 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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Hello
Why is the mime-type for gnus-dired-attach set for all attachments to
application/octet-stream?
The relevant code is this
(while files-to-attach
(mml-attach-file (car files-to-attach)
(or (mm-default-file-encoding (car files-to-attach))
"application/octet-stream") nil)
(setq files-to-attach (cdr files-to-attach)))
Which could be changed to
(while files-to-attach
(mml-attach-file (car files-to-attach)
(or (mm-default-file-encoding (car files-to-attach))
type) nil)
Another possibility is to have a wrapper which uses either the original
or the new function, something like this
(defun gnus-dired-attach-arg (&optional arg)
"Wrapper to call either the orginal functions which uses type
`application/octet-stream' or the new function which guesses the
type, in the same way `mml-attach-file' does this."
(interactive "P")
(if arg
(call-interactively 'gnus-dired-attach-guess)
(call-interactively 'gnus-dired-attach)))
Any comments? I have a patch.
Uwe Brauer
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* Re: gnus-dired-attach: default mime-type application/octet-stream, why
2014-07-20 21:24 gnus-dired-attach: default mime-type application/octet-stream, why Uwe Brauer
@ 2015-01-28 4:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2015-01-28 4:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> Why is the mime-type for gnus-dired-attach set for all attachments to
> application/octet-stream?
>
> The relevant code is this
> (while files-to-attach
> (mml-attach-file (car files-to-attach)
> (or (mm-default-file-encoding (car files-to-attach))
> "application/octet-stream") nil)
> (setq files-to-attach (cdr files-to-attach)))
It's only set to application/octet-stream if `mm-default-file-encoding'
isn't able to figure out what the type is.
> Which could be changed to
> (while files-to-attach
> (mml-attach-file (car files-to-attach)
> (or (mm-default-file-encoding (car files-to-attach))
> type) nil)
Where does that `type' variable come from?
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