Hello everybody, the `mailcap` package (formerly `mime-support`) provides commands named `compose`, `edit`, `print` and `see`, which are aliases to `run-mailcap`, which is used to open files (especially when `xdg-open` is not installed).
`run-mailcap` is able to parse information from `/etc/mailcap` that indicate alternative ways of opening a file according to the intent of the user, in particular if they would prefer to edit the file, or just display it. The commands listed above are the way this intent is communicated. It has been suggested to me via a pull request on Salsa that the `mailcap` package could use the _alternatives_ system so that other packages can provide their own version of the `run-mailcap` aliases. I have no objection in principle, but before doing so I would like to confirm on this mailing list: - Is there interest from other package maintainers to provide their own alternatives ? - Are there objections ? - What would be the interface ? For the `open` command, the interface is minimal: the file to open as argument, and the rest is unspecified. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
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