From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mailcap funny default Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:20:17 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: References: <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 1186041724 12735 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2007 08:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:02:04 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 02 10:01:56 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 1IGVd5-0005lI-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:01:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGVd5-0005io-6v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGVd0-0005hN-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGVcz-0005gp-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGVcz-0005gl-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGVcy-0001De-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:01:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IGVcw-0006o6-Bh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:01:46 +0200 Original-Received: from p57b64d76.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.182.77.118]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:01:46 +0200 Original-Received: from ich by p57b64d76.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:01:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p57b64d76.dip0.t-ipconnect.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/}, q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U 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:75952 Archived-At: Nic James Ferrier writes: > 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. I second this. -- Did you ever realize how much text fits in eighty columns? If you now consider that a signature usually consists of up to four lines, this gives you enough space to spread a tremendous amount of information with your messages. So seize this opportunity and don't waste your signature with bullshit nobody will read.