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

[Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com>]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Gary Wessle wrote:
> > Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> >> Gary Wessle wrote:
> >>> C-h f mailcap-parse-mimetypes output did not give any file names
> >>> either.
> >> Sorry, I meant the files listed in its source code (including
> >> $MIMETYPES, e.g.):
> >>
> >>      (cond
> >>       (path nil)
> >>       ((getenv "MIMETYPES") (setq path (getenv "MIMETYPES")))
> >>       ((memq system-type mailcap-poor-system-types)
> >>        (setq path '("~/mime.typ" "~/etc/mime.typ")))
> >>       (t (setq path
> >> 	      ;; mime.types seems to be the normal name, definitely so
> >> 	      ;; on current GNUish systems.  The search order follows
> >> 	      ;; that for mailcap.
> >> 	      '("~/.mime.types"
> >> 		"/etc/mime.types"
> >> 		"/usr/etc/mime.types"
> >> 		"/usr/local/etc/mime.types"
> >> 		"/usr/local/www/conf/mime.types"
> >> 		"~/.mime-types"
> >> 		"/etc/mime-types"
> >> 		"/usr/etc/mime-types"
> >> 		"/usr/local/etc/mime-types"
> >> 		"/usr/local/www/conf/mime-types"))))
> > what command do I use to get the list of the above files on my
> > system?
> 
> Sorry, there is no command.  I browsed extview.el, whose find-file
> advice led me to mailcap.el, whose mailcap-parse-mimetypes function
> contains that code.
> 
> > looking for any "cpp" in the above files, I found
> > in ****************	"/etc/mime.types"
> > text/x-c++src					c++ cpp cxx cc
> 
> I guess somewhere else "text/x-c++src" is mapped to "more '%s'".  Can
> you see anything suspicious in the output from `C-h v
> mailcap-mime-data' ?  


 ("plain"
   (viewer . "more '%s'")
   (type . "text/plain")
   ("needsterminal" . t))
  ("html"
   (viewer . "/usr/bin/sensible-browser '%s'")
   (type . "text/html")
   ("nametemplate" . "%s.html")
   ("description" . "HTML Text"))
  (".*"
   (viewer . "more '%s'")
   (type . "text/*")
   ("needsterminal" . t))