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Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 29 2003, Jesper Harder wrote:
>
>> I don't understand the purpose.  This is exactly what mailcap is
>> intended to do -- that is if you don't want to invoke an external
>> viewer for some MIME type, then edit your .mailcap file to reflect
>> that preference.
>
> Gnus adds many entries (~43) to `mailcap-mime-data'.  Most of them are
> not present in my mailcap files.  I've been unable to find a simple
> way of removing the entire entries created by Gnus.

  (setq mailcap-mime-data nil)

?

> Or suppose a user wants to display all kind of images (internally or
> externally), but always save dvi, ps, pdf, ... to a file.  What should
> the user put in his mailcap files?

Saving to a file is an internal function, so you can't specify it in
mailcap, but

  (mailcap-add "application/pdf" 'mailcap-save-binary-file)

etc. should work fine.

> _Not_ having entries for dvi, ps, pdf should be enough.

I think I agree.  But I don't understand why there are external
viewers in `mailcap-mime-data' in the first place.  If no one knows a
good reason I think we should remove them (and use defcustom).