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1 perry 1 MAILCAP.ORDER
2 !!!MAILCAP.ORDER
3 NAME
4 DESCRIPTION
5 LIMITATIONS
6 AUTHOR
7 ----
8 !!NAME
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11 /etc/mailcap.order - the mailcap ordering specifications
12 !!DESCRIPTION
13
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15 The order of entries in the ''/etc/mailcap'' file can be
16 altered by editing the ''/etc/mailcap.order'' file. Each
17 line of that file specifies a package and an optional mime
18 type. Mailcap entries that match will be placed in the order
19 of this file. Entries that don't match will be placed
20 later.
21
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23 __Example__
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25
26 mime-support:*/* gv:application/postscript
27 netscape:text/html less:text/* emacs:text/*
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29
30 The above would make any entries provided by the
31 __mime-support__ package (as found in the
32 ''/usr/lib/mime/packages'' directory) take priority over
33 everything else. The __gv__ package will be used over
34 anything else when it comes to postscript documents.
35 __Netscape__ will be used for any html documents and
36 __less__ will be used for any remaining text documents.
37 However, since neither netscape or less provide for editing
38 documents, any edit or compose actions will fall through to
39 the __emacs__ rules.
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42 After modifying this file, be sure to run
43 ''/usr/sbin/update-mime'' (as root) to propagate the
44 changes into the ''/etc/mailcap'' file.
45 !!LIMITATIONS
46
47
48 There is currently no way to break out a certain type from a
49 wildcard rule. If, for example, both xv and gimp were to
50 specify
51 gif'' images but use gimp for ''jpeg''
52 images.
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54
55 Also, I would like to add the ability to specify certain
56 actions in the rules. For example, if netscape were to have
57 an ''edit'' rule but I wanted to use emacs for
58 editing/creating html documents, I could place a line
59 like
60
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62 emacs:text/* action=edit|compose
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65 before the netscape entry. The __update-mime__ program
66 would then spit out entries such that netscape ''view''
67 rule comes __before__ the emacs ''view'' rule but have
68 the netscape ''edit'' rule comes __after__ the emacs
69 ''edit'' rule.
70 !!AUTHOR
71
72
73 The __mailcap.order__ specification was written by Brian
74 White __
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