From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:37:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bqbhkhc6.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <58152.128.165.0.81.1191330286.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <878x6ljwb4.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87fy0r2u3z.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87wsu1sear.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <878x6gqqfa.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87abqt2x52.fsf@jurta.org> <87bqb8rmk2.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192412511 28384 80.91.229.12 (15 Oct 2007 01:41:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 15 03:41:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhExg-0006vk-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:41:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhExZ-0002kq-Fy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:41:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhEtp-00070w-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhEto-0006ze-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:37:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhEtn-0006zE-Vf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:37:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhEtn-0007rk-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhEtn-0001rE-AI; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:37:39 -0400 In-reply-to: <87bqb8rmk2.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:54:45 +0300) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80889 Archived-At: > So do we really want both methods? If so, when should each > method be used? Or how should the user choose? I think both methods are very useful. Why are they both useful? The Gnus mailcap mechanism provides several alternatives of external programs to run. There are many different file types associated with programs in the mailcap file, not only documents supported by doc-view. Ok, but when mailcap finds these kinds of documents, should it run the external program or should it use doc-view? But I think a better way would be to allow the user to select the preferred program, inspect the command line and be able to edit the command line before running a command. This can be achieved by putting program names found by the Gnus mailcap mechanism to the default value in the minibuffer activated after typing ! in Dired. This seems to be a suggestion for changing the Gnus mailcap feature. Is that right?