Re: gnus opening attachments

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

moabi2000 <moabi2000@gmail.com> writes:

> I tracked this down to  line 94 of mailcap.el associates gnumeric with
> vnd.ms-excel files.
>
>      ("vnd\\.ms-excel"
>       (viewer . "gnumeric %s")
>       (test   . (getenv "DISPLAY"))
>       (type . "application/vnd.ms-excel"))
>
> Replacing gnumeric with libreoffice and doing make clean && make had
> me on my way.
>
> So there seem to be significant issues in gnus parsing of mailcap
> files.

So basically, the built-in alist in mailcap.el seems to override your
.mailcap file?

I'm unable to reproduce this.  If I put something in my .mailcap file,
start Emacs, and then try to view something, the entries from the
.mailcap file ends up first in my `mailcap-mime-data' variable.

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