On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:41:00PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:53:24AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have a small script to handle PDF (among other) attachments which is
> > called via mailcap.
> >
> > The mailcap entry is simply:-
> >
> > application/pdf; /home/chris/bin/muttfox %s
> >
> > The muttfox script gives the PDF file to firefox to be viewed.
> >
> > This works fine *except* when there are spaces in the filename,
> > something is changing the spaces in the filename to underscores before
> > the name is handed to muttfox in the %s parameter.
>
> Mutt does this for received email attachments automatically, but the
> filename itself should have underscores too. What do you mean by it not
> "working"?
>
> > So what is changing the spaces to underscores? Does mutt do it and,
> > if so, is there a parameter setting to change what it does?
>
> $mailcap_sanitize appears to be applied to %{} and %t expandos, but %s is
> always sanitized regardless of the setting.
>
Ah, thank you, that "%s is always sanitised" helps somewhat. It at
least explains why I don't get the expected filename.
It turned out that my issue was a bit further down the line in the way
Firefox handled it (misconfiguration on my part basically). The
change of spaces to underscores was just confusing me.
--
Chris Green
