From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64690 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Designate viewing application for mime types Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:17:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87veehnjg9.fsf@newsguy.com> <87r6p5nizg.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180099137 713 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2007 13:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:18:57 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13201@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 25 15:18:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HrZh1-0004YG-Qp for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:18:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HrZgu-0001D0-Ax; Fri, 25 May 2007 08:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HrZgs-0001Cd-VG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 25 May 2007 08:18:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HrZgr-0000QA-Om for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 25 May 2007 08:18:46 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1HrZgr-00049Y-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:18:45 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HrZgc-0001lG-U2 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:18:30 +0200 Original-Received: from sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.223.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:18:30 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:18:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAG1BMVEUAAAA9Cgm3Hx1WWFWA gn+WmJWsrqv4+vcCAwCRl2MkAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAAAYoA AAGKATOXMFgAAAAHdElNRQfXAQwDNR+ZJmElAAABIklEQVQoz22SPW+DQAyGWUq65qasd9PNUSX4 AZHK2C1rJy5jpDS4IwRVup9dn7GNafpKIPPgzztXFSujqq1eM2n8h22oMkvxI/i9C97kRfMRUN55 dS3BrsAwBXUtMLAO4lryh8kTjOxKpQNniNxAgZOEe4bZwsDTFhKdqZRLNII4OQNHhEuq/RMkm6Cj TnnEA/fk0BorcYn5qA3oaeAxbaBOLrX+9G48NZ2Fzc2tzDM8Q+tMypEOqYHh8mAWaaK3U/cDMOT5 aMZMABgPXc7zPMs1A8DXO756GFJ/4fMEq47hTsAdn5avoxZ4ywl0c2w4Flu2Ybeyb3S+EqxX2DYA H8veJGEDTnHnrXvRaPyt+2kSfK6rfBZ2tUtfP/mR+pR6sX8BUZ/cDV7tvkoAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: No Gnus v0.7, Emacs/23.0.0.1 (2007-05-18), Fedora 6.93 gnu/linux Cancel-Lock: sha1:4Ka/ZEToCCNt/nMjkR06gkbbCyI= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64690 Archived-At: ----- reader@newsguy.com (2007-05-25) wrote:----- > Leo writes: > >> ----- reader@newsguy.com (2007-05-25) wrote:----- >> >>> I've forgotten where to set what applications view which mime types. >>> >>> As I recall its a file in /etc for system wide. And I suppose some >>> lisp can do it to. >>> >>> Can someone point me to both techniques documentation? >> >> /etc/mailcap >> > > Thanks for the speedy reply. Investigating that file I suspect there are > other factors involved since *.pdf appears nowhere in it yet gnus trys > to display *.pdf with an old acro reader at a non-existent path when I > press RET on a *.pdf attachment. > > Further there are no mention of any image formats yet gnus attempts to > display them with `display' (an ImagickMagic command) when pressing > RET on an *.jpg attachment. Do you have a ~/.mailcap? -- Leo (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)