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Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el |
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Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:09:54 -0400 |
> Ok, but when mailcap finds these kinds of documents,
> should it run the external program or should it use doc-view?
I think on Gnus attachments of PDF/PS/DVI files it should now use doc-view.
What do others think about this question? Does anyone disagree with that?
> This seems to be a suggestion for changing the Gnus mailcap
> feature. Is that right?
No, the mailcap feature only returns the names of the external programs.
So how to use them is a matter of other packages. Gnus always runs the
first found program to view the Gnus attachment.
Is there a difference between "the mailcap feature" and "deciding what
to do based on mime types"? In your other message you said that it
can specify a Lisp expression instead of an external program. If we
want Gnus to use doc-view, we would do it that way, right?
However, I think Dired
should get programs names from the mailcap feature, and present them in the
minibuffer activated by ! in Dired to allow the user select the desired
program.
The usual thing we want Dired to do with a PDF/PS/DVI file is
doc-view. But you can do that by typing RET or e. Therefore, it is
ok if ! always offers the external program.
By contrast, you and I am proposing that Gnus prefer doc-view to the
external program, for these files.
- Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el), (continued)
- Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el), Juri Linkov, 2007/10/09
- Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el, Reiner Steib, 2007/10/10
- Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/10
- Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/14
- Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/15
- Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el, Tassilo Horn, 2007/10/16
- Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2007/10/18
- Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/19
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/14
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/15
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Leo, 2007/10/16
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/17
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Leo, 2007/10/17
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/17
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Leo, 2007/10/17
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/19
- doc-view and mailcap (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el), Reiner Steib, 2007/10/17
- Re: doc-view and mailcap, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/17
- Re: doc-view and mailcap, Reiner Steib, 2007/10/18
- doc-view and mailcap (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el), Reiner Steib, 2007/10/16