I guess maybe I should have given a little better description of
what I tried that did NOT work? But it's a little off-topic for
this mailing list. Nevertheless, here it is...
I created a ~/.mailcap file and put this in it, which I cut and
pasted from /etc/mailcap:
application/x-shellscript; emacs27 %s; test=test -n
"$DISPLAY"
But obviously that's not going to change anything, since it's
already in the system mailcap file, /etc/mailcap. DOH! And sure
enough, running '>$ run-mailcap myscript' invokes 'less'. But
what I wasn't expecting is that running '>$ update-mime --
local' gives me: "Error: '/home/user/.mailcap' is not in required
format -- not updated". Not sure why I'm getting that when I
cut-and-pasted from /etc/mailcap.
No worries. I'll look in more depth later.
On 5/23/22 8:40 AM, Craig STCR wrote:
Thanks
all for your help!
On 5/20/22 9:44 PM, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Dear Craig, ... or provide plain/text
handler in ~/.mailcap.
OK, I did a first-try on this and was unsuccessful, but I'm sure
it's user error. I need to refresh my knowledge on how to
customize user-local mime database, and that will write-out a
new ~/.mailcap, etc, I think? I've done it before, but it was
awhile ago, and I wasn't paying attention to ~/.mailcap when I
did it. I know for Gnome I can create a .desktop file. But I
know there's a way to customize user-local mime database without
Gnome desktop. I'll take a closer look when I have a little
more time.
On 5/20/22 9:44 PM, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
However, I am not sure what to do on
Windows/Mac.
Maybe try a quick-and-dirty, cross-platform solution that checks
non-binary files for a first-line shebang? Could use existing
Emacs hooks that determine major-mode when opening files.
Again, thanks all for your help!
Best,
-Craig