Hi Michael,
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:27 PM PDT, Michael Elkins wrote:
ME> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 05:47:16PM -0700, Mun wrote:
ME> >I just got 1.5.21 compiled on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 system and
ME> >noticed that the behavior of auto_view has changed (for me). In my
ME> >.mailcap, I have two text/html entries. The first is to launch my
ME> >browser (via Gary Johnson's old "browser launcher from mutt script"),
ME> >and the second entry is to run elinks.
ME> >
ME> >In 1.5.20 while I was in the Attachments page, my browser was used. But
ME> >in 1.5.21 elinks is used. Furthermore, if I comment out the elinks line
ME> >in the .mailcap file, mutt launches /usr/bin/htmlview (which I don't
ME> >have specified anywhere).
ME>
ME> Mutt will now display most text/* parts internally via the pager.
ME> I'm guessing your system /etc/mailcap has a text/html entry
ME> without the "needsterminal" keyword that Mutt is using to render
ME> the text.
ME>
ME> You can still get the old behavior in the attachment menu by
ME> pressing 'm' (view-mailcap) which will always use mailcap for
ME> viewing, and should pick up any entries for external viewers
ME> ("needsterminal").
Thanks very much for your reply. I'm sorry I wasted your time with a
silly question; but your reply was very helpful.
Kind regards,
--
Mun
