Kirill Smelkov wrote: [Mon Oct 12 2009, 09:40:11AM EDT] > 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.
I tend to agree that the current implementation of --action=cat is not useful. > 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. This has the unfortunate effect of avoiding translators that require an X connection, for example unoconv. That's why I finally realized this method wasn't right and I opened this bug. > 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. That would be my preference too. To obtain the functionality as Brian implemented it, I'd probably rather something like "run-mailcap --action=view --nopager" since it's such a minor change from the default view action. However that isn't interesting to me so I didn't implement it. Kirill, if you're interested in trying it, I've attached my version of run-mailcap which includes my patches from #533721, #533722 and #533723. Presently I have this in my /usr/local/bin to override the default installation. Regards, Aron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
