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

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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: bug#36771: 27.0.50; mailcap documentation and effect missmatch
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:01:14 +0200

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

> 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.

I think this should perhaps now work on the trunk -- at least it works
in my test cases.  Could you test?

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