GNU bug report logs - #21331
24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?)

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com (N. Jackson)

Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 17:41:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.5

Done: nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com (N. Jackson)

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From: Rasmus <rasmus <at> gmx.us>
To: 21331 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:33:18 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> So on modern systems probably Emacs should give up and just call
> xdg-open. (Though I seem to recall it's a pain because it forks and
> seems to exit.)

I agree.  Mailcap is a lot of work and should probably be an opt-in over
xdg-open.  AFAICT my distro ("Archlinux") does not even seem to provide a
mailcap file in the official repos.

I think there's some problem with gvfs-open, though,

       https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652262

Rasmus

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