Re: [Mutt] #3460: view-attachments menu "view-attach" command uses auto_view for all text attachments, even when a suitable interactive command is in the mailcap file. This is particularly bad for text/html attachments.
On 2010-10-12, Mutt wrote:
> #3460: view-attachments menu "view-attach" command uses auto_view for all text
> attachments, even when a suitable interactive command is in the mailcap
> file. This is particularly bad for text/html attachments.
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> Reporter: ajschorr | Owner: mutt-dev
> Type: defect | Status: new
> Priority: major | Milestone:
> Component: mutt | Version: 1.5.20
> Keywords: mutt_needs_mailcap text/html view-attach |
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>
> Comment(by derekmartin):
>
> Replying to [comment:9 ajschorr]:
> > Having made that binding change, if I now hit <Return> on an attachment
> of type text/plain,
> > I get this error message:
>
> Yes, you do... but why does this matter? Mutt will automatically display
> attachments of type text/plain in the pager when you view the e-mail to
> which they're attached. There's no need to ever go to the attachments
> menu to see them.
I'm not advocating either side of the main discussion, but I wanted
to point out that that last statement is not true. There are
several situations in which I need--or find it useful--to read
text/plain attachments from the attachment menu. One is where a
multipart/alternative message has text/plain and text/html parts,
alternative_order is set to display the text/html part in the pager,
but the text/html part is empty or corrupt. Another is where a
message has several parts that need to be converted from some other
type (e.g., Word) to text to be read in the pager and that
conversion takes a long time. Reading the text/plain part of the
message from the attachment menu avoids that conversion time.
Regards,
Gary