On date Sunday 2010-03-14 08:21:05 -0700, Michael Elkins muttered: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 03:25:49PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > > I recently upgraded my Debian to Squeezy from Lenny, since then mutt > > fails to view attachment of type text/x-diff using the corresponding > > mailcap entry. > > The Debian package for Mutt includes a patch which forces text/x-diff to > use the internal viewer: > > http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/mutt/1.5.20-7/upstream/393926-internal-viewer.patch > > The current code in the Mercurial repository also has a similar issue > from your point of view since it always uses the internal pager for > text/* parts. > > As an alternative, you can use view-mailcap (by default bound to 'm') in > the attachment menu to force the use of the viewer defined in your > ~/.mailcap.
Hi Michael and thanks for the clarifying reply. Can you say why this behavior has been implemented? Is this considered a bug? As for me I found that behavior quite annoying. Regards. -- mutt random tip #15 You can see the value of a mutt variable using interactively the command: :set ?<variable-name>
