Op di, 05-02-2008 te 20:35 -0500, schreef Thomas Dickey: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 05:35:46PM +0100, Jasper wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > In my system ( Debian Etch ) Lynx calls 'less' to view local files > > with .c or .h extension. > > > > Now I want Lynx to display these files simply like other plain textfiles > > in the 'internal' viewer. > > > > I can trick Lynx into doing that by commenting out the corresponding > > lines in /etc/mime.types : apparently Lynx defaults to the internal > > viewer if it does not know what else to do. > > > > My question is: what is the proper way to do this ? > > That sounds like it's all you can do. You can configure lynx to use > a different configuration file, e.g., > > GLOBAL_MAILCAP:~/mailcap.txt > > (that is what I do, by setting $LYNX_CFG to point to my own file) > > but the system's /etc/mailcap (or whatever) is supposed to reflect general > resources available on the system. > > A quick check on my system shows it bringing up kedit - a program that's > less useful than "less". > > > Note: if I tell it to call Lynx in stead of 'less' ( in /etc/mailcap or > > ~/.mailcap ) then it starts a second instance of Lynx, which is also not > > what we want. > > That's because the mailcap file is only designed to tell what _program_ > to handle a given type. > That sounds very good. That will give me all the power over what happens, without breaking other things. Thanks, --Jasper.
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