Re: Recent Emacs doesn't respect my mailcap

[Rasmus]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> writes:

> I though the first viable viewer in the list would be used?  So the
> priority is how it's ordered...

According to Peder:

> > Hmm, I haven't removed that entry, but I do have earlier entries keyed
> > to "pdf" that point to xdg-open. Still doesn't use it, though...

> That's because mailcap.el sorts the candidates using
> mailcap-viewer-lessp, which is hardcoded to prefer lisp-implemented
> viewers.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85405

I took his word for it, though.

On my system:
(assoc "pdf" (assoc "application" mailcap-mime-data)) =>
       ("pdf" (viewer . "evince %s") (type . "application/pdf")) 

But I'm still stuck with doc-view...

—Rasmus

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