From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Make ~/.mailcap override other settings
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:00:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h8of5hr0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zi28f7cf.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:22:24 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:22:24 +0200
>
> I don't really think this ever made much sense. I think if the user has
> put "image/*; feh" into ~/.mailcap, then that should win.
>
> So I propose to make this change on master. It's backward-incompatible,
> but will lead to a lot less confusion in the years ahead.
>
> What do all y'all think?
I'm okay with that change, provided that we leave some "fire escape"
for users who will want the old behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-13 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-12 21:22 RFC: Make ~/.mailcap override other settings Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 2:38 ` T.V Raman
2018-04-13 11:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 2:54 ` Mark Oteiza
2018-04-13 8:21 ` joakim
2018-04-13 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-04-13 15:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 17:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-14 12:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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