opening attachment

opening attachment

[Daniel Goldin]

Resourceful non-programmer looking to open up attachment in external
application from emacs. The default behavior is to ask me where to save
the file. Ideally, I'd like to open a .doc, say, in ooffice simply by
pressing return. Thanks.

d.

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Re: opening attachment

[Michal Sojka]

On Sat, 02 Oct 2010, Daniel Goldin wrote:
> Resourceful non-programmer looking to open up attachment in external
> application from emacs. The default behavior is to ask me where to save
> the file. Ideally, I'd like to open a .doc, say, in ooffice simply by
> pressing return. Thanks.

Hi,

I do not know the details of attachment handling, but it seems to me
that what happens with the attachment depends on the sender. If the .doc
document is attached as application/octet-stream, then it is saved to
disk. If it is attached as application/msword, then it is open in
openoffice (in my case).

It would be nice if a user could override this, but I do not know how to
do it. Perhaps some elisp guru can tell us.

Bye
-Michal

Re: opening attachment

[Jameson Rollins]

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On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:47:18 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> I do not know the details of attachment handling, but it seems to me
> that what happens with the attachment depends on the sender. If the .doc
> document is attached as application/octet-stream, then it is saved to
> disk. If it is attached as application/msword, then it is open in
> openoffice (in my case).
> 
> It would be nice if a user could override this, but I do not know how to
> do it. Perhaps some elisp guru can tell us.

It seems like the easiest thing would be to have notmuch just prompt the
user for what they would like to do with the attachment.  I think
something like firefox/iceweasel does where it prompts you if you want
to save the document, or open it with some program, where you can
specify which program to use.

jamie.

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Re: opening attachment

[Cédric Cabessa]

On Wednesday 06 October 2010 08:47:18 Michal Sojka wrote:
> It would be nice if a user could override this, but I do not know how to
> do it. Perhaps some elisp guru can tell us.

Without lisp, you can customize your ~/.mailcap file (or /etc/mailcap)

see: 
http://www.gnus.org/manual/emacs-mime_30.html
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1524

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Cédric

Re: opening attachment

[Daniel Goldin]

Setting my .mailcap doesn't seem to have any effect on how notmuch/emacs
handles attachments. Hitting return saves no matter what.

d.

On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:48:41 +0200, Cédric Cabessa <ced@ryick.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 October 2010 08:47:18 Michal Sojka wrote:
> > It would be nice if a user could override this, but I do not know how to
> > do it. Perhaps some elisp guru can tell us.
> 
> Without lisp, you can customize your ~/.mailcap file (or /etc/mailcap)
> 
> see: 
> http://www.gnus.org/manual/emacs-mime_30.html
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1524
> 
> -- 
> Cédric
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Re: opening attachment

[Michal Sojka]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Daniel Goldin wrote:
> 
> Setting my .mailcap doesn't seem to have any effect on how notmuch/emacs
> handles attachments. Hitting return saves no matter what.

I use 'v' key to display attachments. This shows all attachments at
once with the programs configured in .mailcap.

-Michal

Re: opening attachment

[Daniel Goldin]

Ah, thank you. Works like a charm.

d.

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:53:09 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Daniel Goldin wrote:
> > 
> > Setting my .mailcap doesn't seem to have any effect on how notmuch/emacs
> > handles attachments. Hitting return saves no matter what.
> 
> I use 'v' key to display attachments. This shows all attachments at
> once with the programs configured in .mailcap.
> 
> -Michal

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