From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36771: 27.0.50; mailcap documentation and effect missmatch Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:02:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87v9t5swgt.fsf@gnus.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="184386"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Tomas Nordin , 36771@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 03 17:07:19 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iG2hK-000liz-WF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:07:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37328 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iG2hI-0007Q4-1t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41155) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iG2eJ-0005BT-TQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:04:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iG2eD-00083a-Eo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:04:11 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60205) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iG2eA-00082P-3X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iG2e9-0002VL-SD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:04:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:04:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36771 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 36771-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36771.15701149859534 (code B ref 36771); Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:04:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36771) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Oct 2019 15:03:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40787 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iG2dF-0002Ti-Cg for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:03:05 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:49476) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iG2dC-0002TY-Bq for 36771@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iG2d8-0000Lz-LB; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:03:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Thu, 3 Oct 2019 01:38:53 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:168226 Archived-At: Stefan Kangas writes: > Agreed. Here I would have expected to get the more specific entry, but > I get the least specific entry. On my system "view" in /etc/mailcap is: > > text/*; view %s; edit=vim %s; compose=vim %s; test=test -x > /usr/bin/vim; needsterminal > text/*; view %s; edit=vi %s; compose=vi %s; needsterminal You used to get the most specific entry no matter where it was, but I think the change was supposed to allow ~/.mailcap to override even more-specific entries in /etc/mailcap. So text/* in ~/.mailcap will win over text/plain in /etc/mailcap. But I haven't looked closely at this bug report... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no