Using GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-01-30 I run the "Wanderlust" mailer under emacs on both WinXP and OS X. In that mailer I would like to launch file attachments in mail messages (so that when I receive a PDF I can launch Acrobat to view it).
Wanderlust uses the MIME library called "SEMI", which has a method to "mime- preview-play-current-entity". This looks in .mailcap to find out how to play the entity in question. Now, on OS X, this all works fine. My mailcap has entries that look like the following: image/*: /sw/bin/launch -w %s which uses the nice "launch" utility that simply launches the associated application with the file. All good. This works fine under CVS. I have never got this to work under emacs on Windows. I was using the 21.3 release for a while, recently updated to the CVS build from 30 January (above), and have tried a number of .mailcap entries to make this work. Among them are "cygstart" (from cygwin) and "fiber" (from meadow) that are both supposed to launch helper apps given a file name. When I call mime-preview- play-current-entity, emacs records two messages: Wrote c:/temp/EMI2060j4R/indep_study_proposal.doc External method is starting... and then nothing happens. No helper app launches. However, if I call, say, weetabix 1% fiber -s c:/temp/EMI2060j4R/indep_study_proposal.doc from the command line, everything works as I would expect. If I try to quit emacs, I get a message like the following: Proc Status Buffer Command ---- ------ ------ --- ---- fiber -s "c:/temp/EMI2060j4R/indep_study_proposal.doc" run *MIME-echo* C:/Program Files/emacs/bin/cmdproxy.exe -cf fiber - s "c:/temp/EMI2060j4R/indep_study_proposal.doc" I first thought this was a problem with my launcher, but now I'm leaning more toward emacs being the problem since I've tried a couple of launchers now. And since it works perfectly on OS X emacs, I don't think the fundamental approach is flawed. Might I request some help in debugging this, or if others have .mailcap approaches that work fine, I'll happily hear those too? JDO _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
