reassign 466872 mime-support
forcemerge 458691 466872
thanks

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:17:06PM +0000, Dafydd Harries wrote:
> I am in the habit of piping commands to "view -" so that I can copy parts of
> the output into other files, or just for syntax hilighting. This used to work,
> but I now get the following error:
> 
>   Warning: unknown mime-type for "-" -- using "application/*"
>   Error: no "view" mailcap rules found for type "application/*"

This is actually a problem with the mime-support package installing an
alternative for the view command at a much higher priority than the one
installed by Vim (#458691).  You can change which program provides the
alternatives via the update-alternatives program.

James
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