Hi, is there a way to get viu running without a .mailcap file? (I have a
basic rc file.). Thanks! Rob

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 1:02 PM Kevin J. McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 12:19:13AM +0200, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >recently I discovered the command line program "viu" (
> https://github.com/atanunq/viu)
> >which very nicely displays images in terminal windows.  I added this line
> to my .mailcap:
> >
> > image/*; viu -t -n %s ; copiousoutput
>
> The copiousoutput flag could be making a difference here.  That will
> cause Mutt to render the output of the command internally, which by
> default will strip all ansi output.
>
> It sounds like you tried Oleg's suggestion, without the copiousoutput
> flag, but I mention that just in case.
>
> If you really want to view it inside Mutt's pager, you could set
> $allow_ansi.  However, first be sure to read the documentation on that
> option to make sure you understand the security issues.  Second, I
> recommend updating to at least Mutt 2.1, because that version added
> support for 256-color ansi escape sequences.
>
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> Kevin J. McCarthy
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