Re: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.91 is released

[Neil Crellin <neilc@wallaby.cc>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:
> Neil Crellin <neilc@wallaby.cc> writes:
> 
> > Using string= in place of string-match here is doing the totally wrong
> > thing with regard to wildcard matches in the mailcap parsing. I suggest
> > reverting that particular sub-patch.  I'm not seeing what exactly that
> > patch was needed for, so I don't know if this breaks anything else,
> > but it does fix wildcard mailcap matches.
> 
> Somebody had a string "c++" in there, and using string-match didn't
> find it.  (I forgot the exact details.)
> 
> Can we make it grok "c++" and wildcards?
> 
> What is wildcard matching in mailcap parsing supposed to do?

A fairly common artifice in mailcaps are things like the following:

  audio/*; /usr/bin/play %s
  
  image/*; xv %s
  
  video/*; xanim %s

In the example I was trying, mailcap-possible-viewers on an image/gif
was found to match no viewer with the above mailcap definition when
string= replaced string-match.  With string-match, the viewer was
determined to be "xv %s".

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Neil Crellin <neilc@wallaby.cc>