From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, 68687@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#68687: [PATCH] Use text/org media type
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 17:40:21 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4fbab9e6-a538-4fed-8148-ec3bb35a9107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnm2_ByuudxEvnApJKdLK-ij_5CsYae1GPz=584BFU-KQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/02/2024 03:00, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
>> +++ b/lisp/net/mailcap.el
>> @@ -989,7 +989,8 @@ (defvar mailcap-mime-extensions
>> (".jpe" . "image/jpeg")
>> (".jpeg" . "image/jpeg")
>> (".webp" . "image/webp")
>> - (".org" . "text/x-org"))
>> + ;; May be overridden by application/vnd.lotus-organizer in /etc/mime.types.
>> + (".org" . "text/org"))
>
> With this patch, what happens if someone is emailing using an old
> version of Emacs? Does that matter, or is this stuff based only on the
> file ending?
Org files are plain text files and have no specific signature that would
allow tools like libmagic to unambiguously distinguish them from other
text files. Rare files have explicit "# -*- mode: org-mode -*-" header.
So there is no other way besides file name extensions when a message is
composed or a file is served by a HTTP server. Clients should rely on
the Content-Type header.
Old mailers will continue sending messages with
application/vnd.lotus-organizer, text/x-org, or text/org media type.
> IOW, I'm asking if it is backwards-compatible to remove
> "text/org", in either direction.
I suggest to use text/org instead of text/x-org.
> Will .org files be displayed in the
> same way as before or not on both new and old versions?
I do not see a better way toward consistency in respect to the media type.
> I've noticed on my machine that .org files have been interpreted as
> application/vnd.lotus-organizer.
From my point of view, it is a reason to not bother concerning removing
of "text/x-org" from `mailcap-mime-extensions'
> Presumably that's due to some local
> configuration in /etc/mime.types on my distro. Is that correct?
There are 2 projects maintaining /etc/mime.types, they follows IANA
registry, so have application/vnd.lotus-organizer. XDG shared-mime-info
project (another media types DB, not /etc/mime.types) has text/org.
> Is it
> documented somewhere how to override that system configuration in Emacs?
Create ~/.mime.types. Debian's variant suggests it in the
/etc/mime.types header.
> But thinking about this more, why not do that unconditionally for users?
> Lotus Organizer is dead, long gone, and not really relevant to anyone,
> certainly not to the overwhelming majority of Emacs users.
Ideally text/org should be registered in IANA, so all applications could
use consistent mapping. Prerequisites have been discussed already.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-01 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-21 13:56 Org mode MIME type Max Nikulin
2024-01-21 15:11 ` Timothy
2024-01-22 16:21 ` Max Nikulin
2024-01-24 14:43 ` bug#68687: [PATCH] Use text/org media type Max Nikulin
2024-01-25 23:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-25 23:43 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-01-26 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-26 14:00 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-01-30 19:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-30 20:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-01-26 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-31 16:30 ` Max Nikulin
2024-01-27 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-28 16:35 ` Max Nikulin
2024-01-28 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-30 3:56 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-30 12:13 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-01-30 17:12 ` Org mode code evaluation (was: bug#68687: [PATCH] Use text/org media type) Mike Kupfer
2024-01-30 17:51 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-02 3:38 ` bug#68687: " Richard Stallman
2024-02-02 4:58 ` bug#68687: Org mode code evaluation Max Nikulin
2024-02-02 16:10 ` bug#68687: Org mode code evaluation (was: bug#68687: [PATCH] Use text/org media type) Ihor Radchenko
2024-01-31 16:18 ` bug#68687: [PATCH] Use text/org media type Max Nikulin
2024-01-31 16:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-02 3:40 ` Richard Stallman
2024-02-02 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-30 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-31 20:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-02-01 10:40 ` Max Nikulin [this message]
2024-02-02 7:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-02-02 16:28 ` bug#68687: [PATCH v2] " Max Nikulin
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