#3959: Feature Request: Use xdg-mime to determine mime-type
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Reporter: boruch | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: MIME | Version:
Keywords: |
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For systems that have package xdg-utils available/installed, program xdg-
mime can return a mime-type for a file without needing to identify it by
filename extension. For example:
$ xdg-mime query filetype ~/patch_patch-patch
returns: text/x-patch
OTOH, mutt (v1.7) recognizes the file as plain text.
Also, by default, mutt recognizes files with extension .patch as mime-type
text/x-diff, which is close but not exact.
Alternatively, package 'file' includes the command-line program file,
which also has a mime-type option:
$ file --mime-type ~/patch_patch-patch
returns: text/x-diff
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3959>
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