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SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> Should /etc/mailcap be followed when inline methods are available?
> (This has always annoyed me about the W3 defaults -- it prefers to
> start a dumb viewer instead of displaying inline when it can).

I think there should be an interface to override the /etc/mailcap
file.  Like:

(mm-define-method "image/gif"
		   (lambda (picture) (do-that-inline-thing ... picture ...)))

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen