On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:51:22 +0000, Conrad Hughes writes:
Debian's version sends everything (although sometimes there's no-such-file, causing failures) to GUI helper applications, which feels like something of a regression vs 1.5 behaviour.
debian's exmh uses run-mailcap, which is the only thing we can depend on to be available. after all not everybody has (or wants) lynx installed, or libreoffice or <insert mime handler of your personal choice which everybody else hates>. i'd say the clean debianish solution for delegating mime types to specific apps would be to configure /etc/mailcap and/or /etc/mailcap.order, so that the run-mailcap mime handler learns of your preferences. the nmh way would be to prime your mh_profile with your personal mhshow-mimetype/subtype entries for mhshow, and/or massaging /etc/mhn.defaults. the only difference between upstream's mhn.defaults and the one shipped with debian's nmh are the 4+6 lines for mime types application/postscript, /msword, /pdf, image/* (upstream and too specific) vs the generic application/*, audio/*, image/*, video/*, message/* and text/* (debian). i guess i might add a specific entry for text/plain to make show "fall back" to the default %l+moreproc, to divert/refine the generic text/* entry (which we need for text/richtext). regards az -- Alexander Zangerl + GPG Key 0xB963BD5F (or 0x42BD645D) + http://snafu.priv.at/ Buchen sollst du suchen, Bei den Eiben kannst du speiben. -- Gunkl
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