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Re: Autoview, mailcap, etc. question



On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:05:30AM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On Friday, 26 June 2009 at 12:00, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> > On Friday, June 26 at 05:39 PM, quoth Chris G:
> > >I'm sure I used to be able to view HTML E-Mails two ways, firstly in
> > >mutt's pager using links 'automatically' and secondly using firefox if
> > >I used the v[iew-attachments] command.  Now however I seem to be stuck
> > >with only links.
> 
> Make sure the line with copiousoutput comes after any other
> handler. It looks like it doesn't in your muttrc.
> 
Ah, that's it, thanks!  :-)

> >  From the attachment menu, use 'm' (the <view-mailcap> function) 
> > instead of just <Return> (<view-attach> function). If it's more 
> > convenient, you can just rebind <Return> to restore the old behavior:
> > 
> >      bind attach <Return> view-mailcap
> > 
> > I don't entirely understand the reasons this behavior was changed, but 
> > it's been discussed a bit on the mutt-dev list.
> > 
> > It has something to do with making mutt more sane for people who don't 
> > have a mailcap and still want to be able to read text/* attachments.
> 
> Basically, view-attachment now works the same way as the pager, but
> limited to just the scope of the attachment. If it can show the
> attachment inline, it will. This is kind of nice, for instance, if you
> want to read a patch buried in a bunch of other
> attachments. view-mailcap will always launch the external (possibly
> interactive) viewer.
> 

-- 
Chris Green