"Sullivan N. Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to get mhshow to automatically open up various applications
> when different MIME types are present, and most of them work, but there
> are a few exceptions.
>
> The temporary files created by mhshow are names like: mhshowXXXXXX ,
> and a few apps require a suffix in order to work correctly.
>
> For example, with application/PostScript , I can get it to work
> by using the line:
> mhshow-show-application/PostScript: %pgv -
> but NOT
> mhshow-show-application/PostScript: %pgv '%F'
> because gs/gv won't take a filename without the .ps suffix correctly (if
> the file doesn't end in .ps, it appends it and then can't find the
> resulting file). Although this isn't so important (because I've got
> a workaround), I'd like to use staroffice to automatically open with
> application/msword (and others) types. With a suffix, it's working
> fine. Without, it doesn't.
>
> I could also write a simple wrapper script, but I'd rather not since
> that means that I have to make changes in two places every time I add
> a new MIME application.
>
> Any suggestions? Am I missing something basic? Probably so.
No, you're not missing anything. It's unfortunate that you can add suffixes
on mhn.defaults' mhstore directives:
mhstore-store-application/PostScript: %m%P.ps
mhstore-store-text/richtext: %m%P.rt
mhstore-store-text: %m%P.txt
mhstore-store-video/mpeg: %m%P.mpg
but not on the mhshow directives. When I was adding a check for lynx in
mhn.defaults.sh recently, I almost started to implement the ability to add
extensions, but then I found lynx's -force_html flag:
mhshow-show-text/html: %plynx -force_html '%F'
so I put it off. Dan Winship was recently mucking around in the %-escape
code -- maybe he has an idea of how hard or easy it'd be to implement this.
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