On Mi, 15 sep 21, 08:37:51, Nate Bargmann wrote: > As there are a lot of Mutt/Neomutt users on this list, maybe someone can > point me in the right direction. > > Recently via another mailing list a message was posted that included a > diff file with the extension of .patch. The MIME encoding is shown as > application/octet-stream, using Neomutt's view command. > > Pressing Enter on the file name resulting in Geany (GUI text editor) > being opened with the file. Nothing in my ~/.mailcap nor anything in > /etc/mailcap mapped Geany to this MIME encoding/file name. > > As I hadn't been using Geany, I removed it and added the following line > to my ~/.mailcap: > > application/octet-stream; vim %s; description=Patch file; > nametemplate=%s.patch > > Now Neomutt calls less to show the file! > > I'm left to be scratching my head as shown here: > > $ neomutt -nF /dev/null -Q mailcap_path > set mailcap_path = > "~/.mailcap:/usr/share/neomutt/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap" > > only ~/.mailcap and /etc/mailcap exist on my system. I see that less > only shows twice in /etc/mailcap for text/plain and text/*, though the > latter is followed by a text/* that specifies vim. In ~/.mailcp less is > not shown anywhere.
For neomutt in buster I have this in .neomuttrc: # neomutt disabled viewing text/* as text (except text/plain) # re-enable common file types received (requires corresponding .mailcap entry) auto_view text/x-diff auto_view text/x-patch auto_view text/x-gettext Corresponding .mailcap entries: text/x-diff; nvim %s text/x-patch; nvim %s text/x-gettext; nvim %s text/x-diff; cat %s; copiousoutput text/x-patch; cat %s; copiousoutput text/x-gettext; cat %s; copiousoutput As far as I recall the 'auto_view' and the 'copiousoutput' lines are for automatic display in (neo)mutt's pager, the other ones for attachment menu. Hope this helps, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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