#3460: view-attachments menu "view-attach" command uses auto_view for all text
attachments, even when a suitable interactive command is in the mailcap
file. This is particularly bad for text/html attachments.
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Reporter: ajschorr | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: reopened
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: mutt | Version: 1.5.20
Resolution: | Keywords: mutt_needs_mailcap text/html view-attach
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Comment(by ajschorr):
I have a few more thoughts on this:
1. Perhaps the patch should also add the new function to the compose menu.
2. When calling mutt_view_attachment with flag M_MAILCAP (as is done from
the
view-mailcap function), why is it desirable to throw an error instead of
falling
back to viewing as text? I'm not sure why a new view-mailcap-fallback
function
is needed -- why can't we simply change the view-mailcap function to
fallback to
text? Is there a usage case where throwing an error is better than
falling back to text?
3. I think the documentation of the current behavior is at best
misleading. In section
3.3.2 of the manual, it describes the procedure for handling mailcap
entries for text/html
files (this is my exact usage case), and it talks about the <view-attach>
function. The last
sentence of that section says that <view-attach> needs to have the
copiousoutput entry last.
But in fact, this is not true -- <view-attach> chooses the text/html
copiousoutput entry
and ignores the one above it.
I spent an hour debugging this problem after upgrading. I ended up
downloading the source
code and debugging the program to find the source of the behavioral change
(the patch
to mutt_needs_mailcap). I had checked the documentation first, and that
section does not
explain the current behavior correctly, IMHO.
So let's please either patch the code to match the documentation or fix
the docs. And
also let's please fix <view-mailcap> to fallback to text so that users can
have a good
choice about how to bind this menu.
Regards,
Andy
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3460#comment:15>
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