Op di, 05-02-2008 te 20:34 -0800, schreef Doug Kaufman: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Jasper wrote: > > > 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. > > Your personal ".mime.types" file in your $HOME directory overrules any > settings in the global mime.types file. So you should be able to set up > a file in your $HOME directory called ".mime.types" and put in the line: > text/plain c h > > That should make lynx treat *.c and *.h files as plain text. If I > understand you correctly, that should do what you want. >
Yes, that works. ( A pifall here was that the line must have a line-ending. ) An academic question could be: are there other mechanisms affected by this ? But don't worry, I am fine. > An alternative, if you don't want to set up a .mime.types file in your > $HOME directory, would be to use your personal lynx.cfg file. Set > SUFFIX_ORDER:PRECEDENCE_HERE > Then set: > SUFFIX:.c:text/plain > SUFFIX:.h:text/plain > I did not try this solution, looks more clean, limited to lynx only. > Doug > > Thank you. --Jasper. _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
