Re: BUG: org-open-file fails with multiple %s in mailcap entry

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

What are you proposing?

- Carsten

On Dec 22, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> The use of format in org-open-file assumes that there will only ever
> be a single '%s' in a mailcap entry:
>
>    (cond
>     ((and (stringp cmd) (not (string-match "^\\s-*$" cmd)))
>      ;; Remove quotes around the file name - we'll use
>     shell-quote-argument.
>      (if (string-match "['\"]%s['\"]" cmd)
>        (setq cmd (replace-match "%s" t t cmd)))
>      (setq cmd (format cmd (shell-quote-argument file)))
>
> However this is not necessarily the case, e.g. I have
>
> text/html; mailcap_bg %s url_handler.sh "@s" || logger  
> "url_handler.sh failed on %s"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" &&  
> mailcap_test %s firefox; nametemplate=%s.html
> text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump %s || lynx -dump %s || links -dump  
> %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html; description=HTML text
>
> The mailcap(4) man page doesn't explicitly say whether multiple %s is
> allowed or not, but it has always worked for me.  The
>
>  w3m || lynx || links
>
> example above is a particularly common use case, AFAIK.
>
>
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