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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>

Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 07:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, moreinfo

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 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: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 04:35:41 +0200

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

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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