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

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From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 36771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36771: 27.0.50; mailcap documentation and effect missmatch
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:09:37 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> 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...

I could maybe summarize the report by this bald claim: The effective
logic of the `mailcap-prefer-mailcap-viewers` variable is reversed
relative its docstring.

What do you think?

Best regards
--
Tomas

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