From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mailcap MIME type handlers
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 15:38:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fty0i8i1.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1164.1537683367.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
> Ben Bacarisse [2018-09-23 03:52:03+01] wrote:
>
>> How can I get Emacs (specifically mailcap.el) to prioritise my
>> system's or my personal mailcap settings?
>>
>> Gnus, for example, opens PDF files in doc-view-mode rather than using
>> the program specified in /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap.
>
> Use variable mailcap-user-mime-data:
>
> (setq mailcap-user-mime-data
> '(((type . "application/pdf")
> (viewer . "my-viewer %s"))))
Thanks, but that's a bit of a sledge hammer! It looses all the other
settings, and duplicates where I specify the viewer.
I'd like mailcap.el to get the setting from ~/.mailcap. My current
work-around is to
(require 'mailcap)
(setq mailcap-mime-data nil)
(mailcap-parse-mailcaps nil t)
in .emacs, but that's also rather crude because it loses the default
settings from mailcap-user-mime-data, some of which may be useful (I
have not looked at them all). Not to mention doing all the work twice.
--
Ben.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-23 2:52 mailcap MIME type handlers Ben Bacarisse
2018-09-23 6:08 ` Teemu Likonen
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2018-09-23 14:38 ` Ben Bacarisse [this message]
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