I too think, --action=cat should ignore X viewers. After all, original --action=cat use case (as requested by me btw in #526690) was to use it as canonical filter. So _filtering_ functionality was assumed by --action=cat, and otherwise to me cat seems to be useless because we have --action=view.
For my needs I created an extra script ---- 8< astextplain ---- #!/bin/sh unset DISPLAY run-mailcap --action=cat $* ---- 8< ---- instead of just using `run-mailcap --action=cat` where appropriate. What are use-cases for current cat behaviour? If there is none besides being used as a filter, let's please make it ignore interactive viewers and just pipe the result to stdout. Thanks beforehand, Kirill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
