From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 19644@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19644: doc-view-mode overrides my .mailcap settings
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:45:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871svq3jc1.fsf@imladris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h94mbzmk.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:25:55 +0100")
On Wed, Jan 25 2017, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
[...]
>> Subject says it all. I want my ~/.mailcap settings to take precedence
>> for application/pdf (and any other, really) over the defaults, but
>> doc-view-mode (besides not working for me as a viewer) overrides them
>> because it's an elisp function and mailcap-viewer-lessp likes it better.
>
> If I remember correctly, the reason Emacs overrides .mailcap is that in
> the olden days, several Linux distributions came with pre-made .mailcap
> files that had bad defaults for Emacs use.
>
> I think it's been a long time since that was the case, so perhaps
> .mailcap should now always override everything else?
Perhaps only ~/.mailcap (and not the system-wide one which, presumably,
is the one that distributions installed, no?) is the one to take
precedence? I don't remember any distribution creating a mailcap for me
in my $HOME, but admittedly, i haven't used many different distros.
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2017-01-25 21:45 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz [this message]
2017-01-25 21:52 ` bug#19644: doc-view-mode overrides my .mailcap settings Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-12 21:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 17:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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