Re: multiple mailcap entries

["Arne Jørgensen" <arne@daimi.au.dk>]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> I guess to fix the logic in mailcap.el to observe this order of priority
> if mailcap.el specifies an internal command:
>
>    ~/.mailcap
>    mailcap.el
>    /etc/mailcap
>    /usr/etc/mailcap
>    /usr/local/etc/mailcap
>
> but this order if the entry in mailcap.el is an external command:
>
>     ~/.mailcap
>     /etc/mailcap
>     /usr/etc/mailcap
>     /usr/local/etc/mailcap
>     mailcap.el


Why not invent a ~/.mailcap.el and put it at the beginning of the
search path?

That way it doesn't matter whether it is an internal or external
command. If the command is specified in ~/.mailcap.el it is the
command that is to run from emacs.

Kind reagrds,
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