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Subject: BUG: mm-display-external requires an xterm
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When mm-display-external decides that a mailcap entry needs a
terminal, it unconditionally fires off "xterm".  There are two
problems:

1) It tries to run the xterm even if window-system is nil.

   My mailcap has text/html being shown with lynx.  If I'm running
   emacs within an xterm, shouldn't emacs just temporarily shell out
   to lynx?

1) What if I want rxvt instead?  Or maybe ETerm?  Perhaps there should
   be a gnus-external-terminal variable.  This is minor.