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Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default? (dired-x.el)

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Message #44 received at 18132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rrt <at> sc3d.org
Subject: Re: bug#18132: Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default?
 (dired-x.el)
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 02:48:19 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> More generally, I'm not sure mailcap is the right tool for the job:
> its main purpose is to view attachments to email messages, where we
> generally have metadata (MIME etc.) which is not necessarily available
> for arbitrary disk files.

Isn't that just "file --mime-type -b"?  file is a BSD command AFAICT so
it should presumably be available almost everywhere.

I also see in the man page than a certain Reuben Thomas has been
involved in its development so maybe he has something to add here.  :-)

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