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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