From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cannot open attachments with gnus
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:59:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjnzlp41.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2zjo4zmc2.fsf@polytechnique.org
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:34:37 +0100 Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> wrote:
AS> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> Gnus is trying to run a command to view the attachments in a temporary
>> file. After the command exits, the file is cleaned. In your case the
>> command fails immediately, so the "open" command is not working.
AS> Well, the failing is that the pdf viewer tells me the file is not there.
AS> Is it because the following happens:
AS> - 'open foo.pdf' launches the pdf viewer with the file and returns
AS> immediately;
AS> - as 'open' has returned, gnus clean up the file;
AS> - the pdf viewer complains that the file has disappeared?
I think so. My system doesn't have `open' so I don't know if it has an
option to run synchronously, but you could either write a wrapper script
or set up the MIME handling to call the PDF viewer directly.
AS> If so, is there a way to tell gnus not to clean up after opening an
AS> attachment? (The /tmp files will eventually be deleted.)
I don't think there's built-in functionality for this, but it can
probably be written.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-17 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-13 13:02 Cannot open attachments with gnus Alan Schmitt
2013-12-13 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-13 14:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-12-13 17:34 ` Alan Schmitt
2013-12-17 10:59 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-12-17 21:16 ` Alan Schmitt
2013-12-18 8:19 ` Alan Schmitt
2013-12-18 19:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-12-18 20:39 ` Alan Schmitt
2013-12-18 21:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-12-19 15:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-12-20 11:20 ` Alan Schmitt
[not found] ` <mailman.9108.1386944000.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-12-13 17:28 ` Alan Schmitt
2013-12-18 3:27 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.9546.1387337332.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-12-18 8:00 ` Alan Schmitt
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