Re: Disable mailcap support

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Fri, Oct 03 2003, Jesper Harder wrote:

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

If we do the suggested splitting (see above), IMHO we should offer a
simple way for the user (or other lisp programs) to add the external
entries (those now defined by `mailcap.el') to `mailcap-mime-data'.  A
function `mailcap-add-fallback' (maybe a better name would be
`mailcap-add-fallback-entries'?) would do this, preferring the entries
from mailcap files and from the defcustom'ed variable.

Bye, Reiner.
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