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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Disable mailcap support
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 00:25:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y8w3qnt8.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9ad8jqzzx.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>

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

> On Wed, Oct 01 2003, Jesper Harder wrote:
>
>> I think I agree.  But I don't understand why there are external
>> viewers in `mailcap-mime-data' in the first place.  
>
> It seems (from the ChangeLog entries for `mailcap-mime-data') that
> most entries are quite old.

mailcap.el is originally from w3 -- I think those entries were already
there when it was imported to Gnus.

> (Just a thought...)  We could split the data as follows:
> - defcustom mailcap-mime-data-internal (Lisp, PGP, message/* and other
>   internal stuff?)
> - defvar mailcap-mime-data-external (build this from mailcap files)
> - defvar mailcap-mime-data-external-fallback
>
> The default should be mailcap-mime-data = mailcap-mime-data-internal +
> mailcap-mime-data-external.  The user should be able to add the
> fallback entries `mailcap-mime-data-external-fallback' with, say
> (mailcap-add-fallback).

I'm not sure I get the purpose of the fallback entries.  What is the
difference between `mailcap-add' and `mailcap-add-fallback'?



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-02 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-28 16:11 Florian Weimer
2003-09-28 22:56 ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-29 18:04   ` Florian Weimer
2003-09-29 21:47     ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-09 15:35       ` Florian Weimer
2004-01-03 19:28       ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-29 19:35 ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-29 21:27   ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-30 18:04     ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-30 23:37       ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-02 18:02         ` Reiner Steib
2003-10-02 22:25           ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-10-03 18:10             ` Reiner Steib
2003-10-17 17:17           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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