unable to create/find a .cpp file (ed.2)

[Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com>]

Hi

after my first post, I here provide more info in-order to find a fix.
thank you for giving me your time to fix my problems.


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ctl-xf which does find/create a file then I type test.cpp then I get this in
the echo area
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File is opened with an external viewer. See buffer *extview log* for status messages.
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in *extview log* I have
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Opening file ~/test.cpp with handler: more '%s'
/home/fred/test.cpp: No such file or directory

Process extview-process finished
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################ more info ################
C-h v extview-application-associations'
(("\\.py$")
 ("\\.pdf$" . "xpdf %s"))

C-h f mailcap-parse-mimetypes function does not have any ".cpp" entry:

$emacs -q --no-site-file (the problem goes away)
$emacs -q (the problem DOES NOT returns)