From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11212: 24.0.95; mailcap-mime-extensions: Add opendocument formats Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:32:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <81mx6jmr1n.fsf@gmail.com> <83r4vt4hls.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334248382 14318 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2012 16:33:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:33:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11212@debbugs.gnu.org, kjambunathan@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 12 18:33:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SIMx8-0006iO-W1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:32:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIMx8-0001pc-Ab for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:32:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45561) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIMx1-0001oH-0n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:32:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIMwz-0003Mp-5a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:32:50 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:58010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIMwz-0003Me-2Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:32:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SIMy9-0002cy-ME for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:34:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:34:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11212 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11212-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11212.133424841810066 (code B ref 11212); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:34:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11212) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Apr 2012 16:33:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54548 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SIMxl-0002cH-4e for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:48727) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SIMxj-0002cA-FC for 11212@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIMwW-0002qM-1W; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:32:20 -0400 X-Spook: target Pine Gap mindwar fissionable Belknap Sundevil X-Ran: S%+oV?7(Td0%"N101/pGGL=uCUVzl-LaOxog'th5F_CU%.|/`mHhjpJ_olyD%PCNgUq]{1 X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83r4vt4hls.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:57:51 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:58896 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > This file seems to come from mime-support, which is a Debian package. > Do other Posix systems, whether other GNU/Linux or Unix, also have > this file? I'm 99% sure all halfway modern GNU/Linux systems have such files. Eg, Red Hat based ones do. Less sure about any other Unix. mailcap-poor-system-types suggests they do. > OTOH, if we want to rely on this file, then why do we have a non-empty > mailcap-mime-extensions at all? And why adding a few more entries to > that list should be rejected? I'm not rejecting anything; but since this issue mainly affects MS Windows it's not a high priority for me personally to change it. mailcap-mime-extensions is weird (IMO), in that there is a default (which is a defcustom) that gets modified behind the user's back. It would be cleaner to separate it out into different variables. An empty one for the user's customizations, one that gets the system entries added to it, and a fallback one for systems without databases. I think it's fine to add many more entries to the last one. Or stick a mime-types file in the Emacs etc directory if that is easier.