Subject: bug#36771: 27.0.50; mailcap documentation and effect missmatch

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 04:35:41 +0200

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> I tried digging into this code, but found mailcap.el too confusing overall...

Yes, it's really, really confusing.

There's so many reversals in the way things are sorted that it's amazing
that it sometimes halfway works at all.

I think I'll rewrite it some, and mark stuff explicitly where they came
from (user/Emacs/system), and then use that to decide what to use.

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