Reformatted excerpts from Grant Hollingworth's message of 2008-01-15:
> Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Thu Dec 27 13:50:26 -0500 2007:
> > I'd willingly accept a patch to hook into Attachment#view! and allow
> > overriding of the default run-mailcap behavior.
> 
> Sure, but I don't know of the best way to do that. It wouldn't be like
> other hooks, because it has to replace behaviour and not just
> supplement it.

That's not a problem. There are plenty of hooks that override default
behavior if they're present, but do nothing if not. The quoteline one
Marcus just submitted is a good example.

> Lots of systems don't have run-mailcap(1). Probably we should port it
> and push it out as a gem that Sup depends on.

If we want to make some kind of a mailcap-parsing gem, there's a Python
version that is probably more directly portable:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-mailcap.html
Ruby doesn't seem to have any mailcap library, so this would be a good
contribution to the community, especially if it played nicely with
MIME::Types.

Of course, mailcap only gets you Unix systems. Or does OS X use
mailcaps? I imagine for Windows you would need some hideous registry
parsing thing that I'm not even close to writing...

-- 
William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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