On 24Apr2015 17:35, martin f krafft <[email protected]> wrote:
I am seeking the ability to invoke a command on a MIME attachment
which is not <view-attach>. Simple example: <view-attach> on a PNG
file might open xview with the temporary file, but sometimes I'd
like to load an attachment (the temporary file) in Gimp to be able
to edit and save-as to somewhere else.
[...]
I wrap all my mailcap commands with my apphelper script, which itself is
wrapped in my shorter-named "ah" script. My mailcaps look like this:
application/pdf; ah %s -1 xpdf; gui
image/jpg; ah %s -1 xv; gui
image/tiff; ah %s -1 gm display; gui
and so forth. As you can see, the viewer is mentioned at the end.
What does apphelper do?
It runs the viewer command, and also offers to save the file with useful
defaults (remembers the last save dir, etc). You can also use a shell escape to
run an arbitrary _other_ command on the file.
Links:
blurb:
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/apphelper.html
source:
https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/apphelper
https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin-cs/ah
man page:
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/manuals/apphelper.1.html
Let me know if you want further detail or help.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
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