From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:19:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k2slhpj0.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <87wpwiwbg0.fsf@md5i.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440606031 8920 80.91.229.3 (26 Aug 2015 16:20:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com, Richard Stallman , 21331@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Welsh Duggan Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 26 18:20:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdQn-0001Pl-Rw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:20:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39258 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdQm-0002ac-Qw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdQj-0002Z0-He for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdQi-0005ze-RF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:46781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdQi-0005z1-Oo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdQh-0001Xd-3a; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:20:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87k2slhpj0.fsf@moondust.localdomain> Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bugs@gnus.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21331 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,gnus X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 21331-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21331.14406059665873 (code B ref 21331); Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21331) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Aug 2015 16:19:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38991 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdQ6-0001Wf-6I for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:32927) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdQ4-0001WX-Fn for 21331@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdQ3-0005Yb-IT for 21331@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:40876) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdQ1-0005Y2-0F; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdPz-0003IZ-03; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:19:19 -0400 X-Spook: ammunition Etacs MS13 password Drug war ANDVT Red Cross X-Ran: ^:;V$2.=Pz66=mU>U>V(nJQo[?#=S-}#su}4v5y^[2Iu~xay#8bDbY>tp5M~(pTHYv{yTU X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:105842 Archived-At: I really doubt any GNU/Linux distribution has better support for MS Office in this area (a program they cannot ship or even install, ignoring Wine) then LibreOffice (which they do ship). /etc/mailcap on Debian seems to have the relevant soffice entries. /etc/mailcap on Red Hat seems to be largely empty, basically punting everything to xdg-open, which works fine for me on LibreOffice docs even in RHEL7, so I'm sure it does on Fedora. So on modern systems probably Emacs should give up and just call xdg-open. (Though I seem to recall it's a pain because it forks and seems to exit.) But yes, some fallback mailcap entries would paper things over.