GNU bug report logs - #36771
27.0.50; mailcap documentation and effect missmatch

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Message #11 received at 36771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>, 36771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36771: 27.0.50; mailcap documentation and effect missmatch
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:02:58 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> Agreed.  Here I would have expected to get the more specific entry, but
> I get the least specific entry.  On my system "view" in /etc/mailcap is:
>
> text/*; view %s; edit=vim %s; compose=vim %s; test=test -x
> /usr/bin/vim; needsterminal
> text/*; view %s; edit=vi %s; compose=vi %s; needsterminal

You used to get the most specific entry no matter where it was, but I
think the change was supposed to allow ~/.mailcap to override even
more-specific entries in /etc/mailcap.

So text/* in ~/.mailcap will win over text/plain in /etc/mailcap.

But I haven't looked closely at this bug report...

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