From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>
To: 15436@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15436: 24.3.50; reads ~/.mailcap only once
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:38:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141025083854.GA24005@boo.workgroup> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87li2omvwh.fsf@boo.workgroup>
Hi Eli, emacs developers,
* Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> [22. Sep. 2013]:
>>> When opening a file link to say an image or PDF document within
>>> org-mode via C-u C-u C-c C-o Emacs reads (in default
>>> configuration) ~/.mailcap in search for a application to open the
>>> file with. If one then changes this ~/.mailcap, saves it and opens
>>> the same file again it is opened via the mailcap entry before the
>>> change.
>>
>> Does it help to invoke "M-x mailcap-parse-mailcaps RET"?
>
> Yes. Thanks for this pointer.
>
> I still consider this to be a bug. Emacs should behave as
> configured in .mailcap not as in an old version of it. If the
> Emacs developers consider this behaviour to be ok then it should
> be documented somewhere.
This could be a use case for the inotify infrastructure. (Way
beyond my skills).
Ciao, Gregor
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-22 19:45 bug#15436: 24.3.50; reads ~/.mailcap only once Gregor Zattler
2013-09-22 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-22 20:41 ` Gregor Zattler
2014-10-25 8:38 ` Gregor Zattler [this message]
2020-08-05 7:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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