Overriding system mailcap

Overriding system mailcap

[Hrvoje Niksic]

After clicking on Shenghuo's `text/x-patch' attachment, Gnus said
"Displaying more '/tmp/emm.ZlBCnm/95-zsh11.diff'..." and spawned off
an xterm with that contents.

Yuck!  I want text/* displayed inline.  In Gnus.  For other programs,
the system mailcap default of "more %s" makes perfect sense.

I would assume that mucking with mm-inline-media-tests would fix it,
but that variable already has a `text/.*' entry pointing to
mm-inline-text.  What gives?

Re: Overriding system mailcap

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> After clicking on Shenghuo's `text/x-patch' attachment, Gnus said
> "Displaying more '/tmp/emm.ZlBCnm/95-zsh11.diff'..." and spawned off
> an xterm with that contents.
> 
> Yuck!  I want text/* displayed inline.  In Gnus.  For other programs,
> the system mailcap default of "more %s" makes perfect sense.
> 
> I would assume that mucking with mm-inline-media-tests would fix it,
> but that variable already has a `text/.*' entry pointing to
> mm-inline-text.  What gives?

I've read the documentation, and I think the following is happening:

mm-inline-media-tests says that text/* *can* be displayed inline.
mm-inlined-types says that text/* *should* be displayed inline.  And
mm-automatic-display says that text/x-patch *should not* be displayed
automatically.

Urr.  Uhm.  No, I don't understand.  There's a bug in the clicker
code.  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen