Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> > What mail-user-agent are you using where this configuration is
> > advantageous?
>
> It was to make "run-mailcap --action=cat" work on text/plain.
A response that completely avoided answering my question.
> > The run-mailcap command is in the mime-supp
Bob Proulx writes:
>
> What mail-user-agent are you using where this configuration is
> advantageous?
It was to make "run-mailcap --action=cat" work on text/plain.
> The text/plain mailcap is already loaded with other entries such as
> on my system:
Notice they're all either needsterminal or $D
Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Michael Stone writes:
> > I'm not sure why this would be useful.
I don't understand how mailcap and mime types are related to coreutils.
I don't think coreutils should own a mailcap entry.
> Currently "run-mailcap --action=cat" cannot cat a text/plain text file
> but adding a
Michael Stone writes:
>
> I'm not sure why this would be useful.
Currently "run-mailcap --action=cat" cannot cat a text/plain text file
but adding a mailcap entry will let it work.
> Why wouldn't you just pipe the
> file to a pager and avoid the mailcap indirection?
Primarily for genericness.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:27:12AM +1100, Kevin Ryde wrote:
This is an idea for an /etc/mailcap entry for "cat". This allows a text
file to be catted with
run-mailcap --action=cat foo.txt
The file below is debian/coreutils.mime and adding dh_installmime to the
binary-arch should install it
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.21-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
This is an idea for an /etc/mailcap entry for "cat". This allows a text
file to be catted with
run-mailcap --action=cat foo.txt
The file below is debian/coreutils.mime and adding dh_installmime to the
binary-arch should insta
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