Re: Problem Viewing MIME Part

[Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRunningWolf@att.net>]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRunningWolf@att.net> writes:
>
>> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>>
>>> What do the following expressions return?
>>>
>>> (mm-inlined-p '(nil ("text/html") nil nil nil nil nil nil))
>> t
>>
>>> (mm-inlinable-p '(nil ("text/html") nil nil nil nil nil nil))
>> lynx
>>
>> What does this mean?
>
> It means that Gnus thinks that it _can_ inline HTML (mm-inlinable-p),
> and that you wan't it inlined (mm-inlined-p).
>
> Have you customized any Gnus settings related to HTML display?

Emperically, the answer would appear to be yes, but I don't know where
I could have done such a modification. Where should I look?

A search for "mm-" or "html" yeilds nothing in ~/.gnus or ~/.emacs.

Here's  an attempt at a ~/.mailcap, though the behavior is the same
with and without this file.  I had gotten various "help" over the
months, but hadn't sucseeded in getting any of it to work.

/
| application/ms-word; start %s
| application/* start "" %s
\

Where else could I be changing the mappings?

For some reason, I'm able to press "CR" on *some* buttons,
specifically, I got a PDF file as a link that looked like this, only
emboldened like a button:

[2. application/pdf; Schebel, p1.pdf]...

Pressing CR on the button, produced this message in the minibuffer,
but does not display the file in a viewer.

Displaying gv -safer "c:/DOCUME~1/toshiba/LOCALS~1/Temp/emm.1360eqi/Schebel, p1.pdf"...

It seems to extract the file into a location that I can open the file
from using this piece of code by typing X in a dired buffer.

/
| ;;; From: David Vanderschel <DvdS@Austin.RR.com>
| ;;; Subject: Re: [h-e-w] mailcap file and filename/type associations for Windows 95
| ;;; To: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org
| ;;; Date: 05 Jan 2002 17:47:47 -0600
| ;;; dired stuff to open files a la Windows from Howard Melman
| (defun dired-execute-file (&optional arg)
|   (interactive "P")
|   (mapcar #'(lambda (file)
| 	      (w32-shell-execute "open" (convert-standard-filename file)))
|           (dired-get-marked-files nil arg)))
| ;;;...
| (defun hrm-dired-mode-hook ()
|   "Hook run when entering dired-mode."
|     (define-key dired-mode-map "X" 'dired-execute-file)
|     (define-key dired-mode-map [M-down-mouse-1] 'dired-mouse-mark-file))
| 
| (global-set-key [?\C-x mouse-2] 'dired-mouse-execute-file)
| (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'hrm-dired-mode-hook)
\

So... WinDOS 2000 can do the right thing ifff I could get gnus via
gnuemacs to send everything to "open".

The corresponding information for application/pdf for the function
calls you reqeusted is below.

(mm-inlined-p '(nil ("application/pdf") nil nil nil nil nil nil))
nil

(mm-inlinable-p '(nil ("application/pdf") nil nil nil nil nil nil))
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  mm-readable-p((nil ("application/pdf") nil nil nil nil nil nil))
  mm-inlinable-p((nil ("application/pdf") nil nil nil nil nil nil))
  eval((mm-inlinable-p (quote (nil ... nil nil nil nil nil nil))))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
* call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)

I really do appreciate your help. This un-feature has almost had me
stop using gnus on numerous occasions. My eyes are tiring of parsing
HTML, or doing heroics to read PDF MIME attachments or JPEG pictures
my dad sends of our family.

Thanks,
Michael Wolf

P.S. To be explicit, here's what I'm using on a Windows 2000 laptop:
User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.2 (windows-nt)


-- 
Michael R. Wolf
    All mammals learn by playing!
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