Re: MIME parts not saved

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> For the present Gnus code, it starts the timer when Gnus detects
> that the external viewer process exits.

Ah, perfect - sorry for making noise without checking the facts.

> However, if eog is launched by way of xdg-open and the like, Gnus
> immediately detects that the process of xdg-open, not eog, does
> exit, and starts the timer.

Yeah, that's the annoying case.

> In that case, Gnus doesn't know whether a viewer is still running, and
> the viewing will fail, if it is eog, one minute after. But the
> solution for this is obvious. That is to configure the mailcap so as
> to use a viewer program directly, rather than to launch a viewer by
> way of xdg-open.

You could do that, but it would be so much nicer if interaction with
those tools "just worked", as they are widespread as defaults (I
think?)...

Except for a longer time-out, I cannot see a better solution - now that
"delete on quit" isn't acceptable, as per the emacs-devel mailing list.

Maybe the time-out could default to 1 minute, but if you configure it to
nil, then the temporary files will be kept until Emacs quits?

Then people who use detaching viewers simply have to set a single
variable, making an informed decision knowing what "problems" this
causes in /tmp/, and everybody is sort of happy?

I thought your solution with "delete on quit" was elegant, for what it's
worth.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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