Anyone knows "ee"?

Anyone knows "ee"?

[Stefan Monnier]

The other day, Emacs (Gnus) decided for some reason to display a photo
by passing it to `ee`.

Does anyone know what that is?  I couldn't find any trace of
it anywhere.

Any objection to the patch below?


        Stefan


diff --git a/lisp/net/mailcap.el b/lisp/net/mailcap.el
index 86f9d2bf07..f01a5deb7e 100644
--- a/lisp/net/mailcap.el
+++ b/lisp/net/mailcap.el
@@ -269,11 +269,6 @@ mailcap-mime-data
       (viewer . "display %s")
       (type . "image/*")
       (test   . (eq window-system 'x))
-      ("needsx11"))
-     (".*"
-      (viewer . "ee %s")
-      (type . "image/*")
-      (test   . (eq window-system 'x))
       ("needsx11")))
     ("text"
      ("plain"

Re: Anyone knows "ee"?

[Amin Bandali]

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Stefan Monnier writes:

> The other day, Emacs (Gnus) decided for some reason to display a photo
> by passing it to `ee`.
>
> Does anyone know what that is?  I couldn't find any trace of
> it anywhere.
>
[...]

Seems to be "easy editor", a text editor included in FreeBSD.

,----[ excerpt from README.ee ]
| The editor 'ee' (easy editor) is intended to be a simple, easy to use
| terminal-based screen oriented editor that requires no instruction to
| use.  Its primary use would be for people who are new to computers, or
| who use computers only for things like e-mail.
`----

- https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ee&sektion=1
- https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/ee/

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Re: Anyone knows "ee"?

[Adam Sjøgren]

Stefan writes:

> The other day, Emacs (Gnus) decided for some reason to display a photo
> by passing it to `ee`.
>
> Does anyone know what that is?  I couldn't find any trace of
> it anywhere.

I think it's an older GNOME image viewer called "Electric Eyes":

  "Electric Eyes

   Red Hat Advanced Development Labs. Electric Eyes is a new,
   Linux/GNOME-based image viewer by The Rasterman (who's perhaps better
   known for his spectacularly fancy Enlightenment desktop). It is also
   one of the prototype applications for Imlib, an X-based imaging
   toolkit described in Chapter 16, “Other Libraries and Concluding
   Remarks”.

   http://www.labs.redhat.com/ee.shtml"

   · https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/png-the-definitive/9781565925427/11_chapter-03.html#ch03-004

  "@ ee 
  category: GNOME-apps
  sdesc: "The Electric Eyes image viewer application."
  ldesc: "The ee package contains the Electric Eyes image viewer for the GNOME
   desktop environment.  Electric Eyes is primary an image viewer, but it
   also allows many types of image manipulations.  Electric Eyes can
   handle almost any type of image."
  requires: gtk+ imlib gnome-libs libintl2 XFree86-lib-compat"

   · http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/install/release/ee/setup.hint

   · https://archive.org/details/tucows_31588_Electric_Eyes


  Best regards,

    Adam

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Re: Anyone knows "ee"?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The other day, Emacs (Gnus) decided for some reason to display a photo
>> by passing it to `ee`.
>>
>> Does anyone know what that is?  I couldn't find any trace of
>> it anywhere.
>>
> [...]
>
> Seems to be "easy editor", a text editor included in FreeBSD.

That would be a pretty poor choice to display `image/*` mime types,
wouldn't it?


        Stefan

Re: Anyone knows "ee"?

[Amin Bandali]

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Stefan Monnier writes:

>>> The other day, Emacs (Gnus) decided for some reason to display a photo
>>> by passing it to `ee`.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what that is?  I couldn't find any trace of
>>> it anywhere.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Seems to be "easy editor", a text editor included in FreeBSD.
>
> That would be a pretty poor choice to display `image/*` mime types,
> wouldn't it?
>
>
>         Stefan

It certainly would.  Adam's suggestion makes more sense. :-)

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