It seems that Emacs 25 prefers doc-view-mode for displaying various contents such as application/pdf mime types. I'd prefer external viewers as defined elsewhere in my system (mailcap). I can brutally delete every reference to doc-view-mode from mailcap-mime-data variable (see the code below) but I'd prefer taking a less brutal route. Any ideas? (require 'cl-lib) (require 'mailcap) (setq mailcap-mime-data (mapcar (lambda (major) (cons (car major) (cl-remove-if (lambda (minor) (cl-member-if (lambda (v) (cl-member v '(doc-view-mode pdf-view-mode view-mode))) (cdr minor) :key 'cdr)) (cdr major)))) mailcap-mime-data)) -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. // // PGP: 4E10 55DC 84E9 DFF6 13D7 8557 719D 69D3 2453 9450 ///