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* bug#19644: doc-view-mode overrides my .mailcap settings
       [not found] ` <87h94mbzmk.fsf@gnus.org>
@ 2017-01-25 21:45   ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
  2017-01-25 21:52     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jose A. Ortega Ruiz @ 2017-01-25 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 19644

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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* bug#19644: doc-view-mode overrides my .mailcap settings
  2017-01-25 21:45   ` bug#19644: doc-view-mode overrides my .mailcap settings Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
@ 2017-01-25 21:52     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2018-04-12 21:23       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2017-01-25 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jose A. Ortega Ruiz; +Cc: 19644

"Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

I vaguely remember systems with preinstalled ~/.mailcap files...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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* bug#19644: doc-view-mode overrides my .mailcap settings
  2017-01-25 21:52     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2018-04-12 21:23       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2018-04-13 17:58         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2018-04-12 21:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jose A. Ortega Ruiz; +Cc: 19644

I've now proposed changing this on emacs-devel, so that ~/.mailcap
settings will always win.  

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no






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* bug#19644: doc-view-mode overrides my .mailcap settings
  2018-04-12 21:23       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2018-04-13 17:58         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2018-04-13 17:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jose A. Ortega Ruiz; +Cc: 19644

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've now proposed changing this on emacs-devel, so that ~/.mailcap
> settings will always win.  

And everybody agreed, so a fix for this is now in Emacs 27.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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