On Sun, 08 Nov 2015 15:18:22 +0100, Harald Geyer writes: >"run-mailcap --action=view" is meant to start a pager, which is not >what mhshow wants to do.
why not? where does it say that?
view is meant to do whatever is necessary to present the material to
the user.
>mhshow wants formatted output that can be
>passed on to it's own pager (moreproc).
not necessarily; look at the examples in man mhshow for, say, audio
or image/*:
mhshow-show-audio/basic: raw2audio 2>/dev/null | play
mhshow-show-image: xv %f
mhshow-show-application/PostScript: lpr -Pps
there is no paging by nmh involved in any of these. there is nothing
in the mhshow docs that indicates that a pager supplied by mhshow must
be used.
>x/console/whatever use, but nmh (and sensible-tools) are messing
>things up, because they try to do part of the job themselfs. I think
>the easy way to fix this is to dump run-mailcap down so it doesn't
>interfere with what nmh is doing.
to be honest i have not yet seen any of the interference problems
you're having. with the default mhn.defaults, no special .mh_profile entries
whatsoever, and a pure html email (yuck), for me mhshow
a) fires up my real browser if i have a $DISPLAY,
b) falls back to showing me the transmogrified text (via w3m)
and paged by less if there is no $DISPLAY.
if i switch the mhn.defaults to --action=cat, then case a) never
happens anymore, because action cat ignores all mailcap entries but the
ones with 'copiousoutput' and not many have that set,
and in the remaining case b) no paging whatsoever is performed.
i find this latter setup highly undesirable.
>I think your explanation in the News.Debian is a good one.
ok, then i'll expand that in the next upload to mention that people
should also consider run-mailcap --action=cat as alternative to
the defaults...
>configuration probably works on many sytems - but only by chance, not
>by being right.
...because i disagree with your opinion that there is
anything wrong with delegating show actions to run-mailcap --action=view.
so, shall we agree to disagree? i just don't think there's a single
setup that'll match everybody's preferences.
regards
az
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