From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic James Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: mailcap funny default Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:24:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87ps27mddn.fsf@woome.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185985529 22157 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2007 16:25:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:25:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 01 18:25:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IGH0h-0000z2-Sa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:25:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGH0g-00028w-U7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGH0b-00024S-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGH0a-00023a-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGH0a-00023X-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from owls-tree.tapsellferrier.co.uk ([81.187.188.218] helo=owls-house.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGH0a-0006du-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from nicferrier.tapsellferrier.co.uk ([172.31.50.1] helo=localhost) by owls-house.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.60 #1 (Debian)) id 1IGGss-00069C-PV; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:17:14 +0100 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2C0EBC220C; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 17:24:36 +0100 (BST) X-Detected-Kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75914 Archived-At: mailcap.el has: application/octet-stream set to the default viewer of mailcap-save-binary-file. Should mailcap be providing a default for this? I don't think so. A lot of attachments have this purely because the sender has a poor mime setup (I am working with a client with a mac that _never_ sends anything other than this mimetype). So _most_ of the time one wants to ask: (mailcap-mime-info "application/octet-stream") and get no default so that one can ask the user how they want to look at it. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk