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Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> >>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> LMI> Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> >> Another problem is that Gnus builtin mailcap overrides ~/.mailcap and
> >> others.  I don't think this is right.
> >> 
> >> My suggestion is removing the nreverse calls, parsing mailcap file
> >> backwards, and adjusting the file order in mailcap-parse-mailcaps.
> 
> LMI> Hm, yes, that sounds like a good solution...
> 
> Fixed. Please test.

Yep ... seems to be fine now: `mailcap-add-mailcap-entry' within
`.gnus.el' actually works, and `/etc/mailcap' entries indeed override
the gnus defaults as well as `mailcap-add-mailcap-entry' calls within
`.gnus.el'.

I believe that this is exactly what it's supposed to do.

Thanks!

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
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