Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
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Subject	Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap
Date	2021-09-16 08:30 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 09:34:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote:

[...]

> BTW, your shell command,
> 
>   !see --norun application/octet-stream:/dev/null
> 
> will give you an answer in the context of a subshell, and
> not necessarily in the context of mutt itself [...]

Definitely, that's another point. I was just mulling over the
semicolon and came up with a minimal patch ;-)

> About the ";", it could also be an accidentally unshifted ":",
> and it might be easy to mis-remember:

The keyboard (and semantic) distance would be much shorter, this
makes this option attractive -- but there is no `:see' command in
"my" mutt, and, as far as I remember Nate seems to have tried it
unsuccessfully, too.

> 
>     ":" is mutt's keystroke for entering mutt commands, whereas
>     "!" is mutt's keystroke for entering shell commands.

That is why I went for "!" after realising that there's a `see'
shell command but no homonymous mutt command...

Cheers
 - t

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Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 15:40 +0200
  Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-15 17:50 +0200
    Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 20:00 +0200
      Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-15 20:20 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 20:20 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-15 21:20 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 23:30 +0200
            Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-16 04:40 +0200
              Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-16 08:30 +0200
              Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-16 12:40 +0200
                Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-19 06:50 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-16 09:50 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-16 11:10 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-16 13:50 +0200
            Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-18 00:30 +0200
  Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 09:40 +0200
    Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-16 12:10 +0200

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