Re: Mailcap problem specifying application/octet-stream

["John Cooper (UK)" <john.cooper@eu.citrix.com>]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

 > Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net> writes:
 > 
 > > Perhaps Lisp functions take precedence over shell commands in
 > > mm-mailcap-data?
 > 
 > It's the truth.
 > 
 > > Is that the case?  If so, is there a way to override it?
 > 
 > Remove the lisp function entry or redefine mailcap-viewer-lessp.

Thanks for the clarification.

The following (in my .gnus) removes the default application/octet-stream entry,
thus allowing my .mailcap specification to take effect:

(require 'mailcap)

(let* ((application (assoc "application" mailcap-mime-data))
       (octet-stream (assoc "octet-stream" application)))
  (when (symbolp (cdr (assoc 'viewer octet-stream)))
    (delete octet-stream application)))

    --- John