More info: Thinking that there might be a gnus bug in the parsing of wildlcards in mailcap files, I specifically associated word and excel files with libreoffice via lines in /etc/mailcap:
application/msword; /usr/bin/libreoffice %s application/vnd.ms-excel; /usr/bin/libreoffice %s This led to gnus opening word files in libreoffice just fine. BUT, excel files were being opened in gnumeric... I tracked this down to line 94 of mailcap.el associates gnumeric with vnd.ms-excel files. ("vnd\\.ms-excel" (viewer . "gnumeric %s") (test . (getenv "DISPLAY")) (type . "application/vnd.ms-excel")) Replacing gnumeric with libreoffice and doing make clean && make had me on my way. So there seem to be significant issues in gnus parsing of mailcap files. This is a problem, as it means gnus isn't portable across machines (eg some machines have openoffice and some libreoffice etc). Is this just a bug?
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