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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:
> 
> > OT1H it pretends to have completion (SPC tries to complete), OTOH it
> > requires you to enter stuff like "xv %s" for viewing.
> 
> Yeah.  I think it's primarily meant to allow you to choose between all 
> the possible registered viewers for a certain MIME type -- you're not
> supposed to write the command explicitly.  (For that you have `|' and
> the like.)  So I think it makes sense to have `v' allow
> auto-completion. 

Oh.  I haven't tried completion for a *long* time now.  Now I see that
it actually offers a meaningful completion list.  Never mind, then.

> > Maybe the best is to offer both: one command which says `view this
> > part normally but pretend it has a different content type' (this would
> > be useful for mails received from broken mailers which are unable to
> > supply a meaningful content type),
> 
> A new command for viewing as a different media type sounds nice, but
> would that be useful?

I think some broken mailers exist which tag everything as
application/octet-stream and require the recipient to tell the file
type from the file name.

kai
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