Lars Ingebrigtsen <la...@gnus.org> writes: > Ben <ben.li...@bsb.me.uk> writes: > >> Lars Ingebrigtsen <la...@gnus.org> writes: >> >>> Ben Bacarisse <ben.li...@bsb.me.uk> writes: >>> >>>> My system is currently set up so that gnus happens to use mplayer to >>>> open video mime parts but I'd like it, and other mailcap aware programs, >>>> to use something else. So I put the line >>>> >>>> video/*; totem %s >>>> >>>> into ~/.mailscap. Checking with run-mailcap shows it to be working as >>>> expected, but gnus continues to use mplayer. >>> >>> I can't find the string "mplayer" anywhere in the Gnus sources, so do >>> you know where that setting is coming from? >> >> It's in /etc/mailcap -- where system-wide settings are placed. Gnus >> reads /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap to determine what to do with mime >> parts. > > ~/.mailcap should certainly win over /etc/mailcap, but more specific > settings should also win over less general settings. My guess is that > /etc/mailcap has something like > > video/mpeg; mplayer %s; description="MPEG Video" > > which makes it more specific than the video/* in your ~/.mailcap. > > But I still think that your ~/.mailcap should have won.
That is certainly how other programs that use mailcap files interpret it -- a personal wild-card setting wins over even a very specific system setting. > Please report > this as a bug with `M-x report-emacs-bug'. OK. -- Ben. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
