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Re: Gnus seems to not understand video/* syntax in mailcap files.
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Ben |
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Re: Gnus seems to not understand video/* syntax in mailcap files. |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:48:23 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Ben Bacarisse <ben.lists@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>
>> My system is currently set up so that gnus happens to use mplayer to
>> open video mime parts but I'd like it, and other mailcap aware programs,
>> to use something else. So I put the line
>>
>> video/*; totem %s
>>
>> into ~/.mailscap. Checking with run-mailcap shows it to be working as
>> expected, but gnus continues to use mplayer.
>
> I can't find the string "mplayer" anywhere in the Gnus sources, so do
> you know where that setting is coming from?
It's in /etc/mailcap -- where system-wide settings are placed. Gnus
reads /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap to determine what to do with mime
parts.
--
Ben.