Re: Saving attachments

[Greg Bognar <greg.bognar@gmail.com>]

Hi Erik,

Thanks for the tip.  Unfortunately, I cannot make this work reliably.  I
tested on two computers (both running KDE).  At first, pressing `e' does not
give you the prompt, but then it stops working and reverts to the old
behavior.

I can't figure out why.  Perhaps there is something in my customizations.
I'll do some more testing.

Pressing `v' did not work at all.

Cheers,
Greg

On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 21:59:36 -0700, Erik Hetzner wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Here is a solution that I came up with, if you a modern desktop. I
> have tried this with a number of messages with different types of
> attachments, but Iʼm not sure if it will work universally.
> 
> First,
> 
>   (setq mime-view-mailcap-files '("~/.mailcap"))
> 
> This needs to be done *before* SEMI is loaded. You can use
> customize-variable for this. Next, use the following (and only the
> following) in your ~/.mailcap file:
> 
>   application/*; xdg-open %s
>   image/*; xdg-open %s
>   text/*; xdg-open %s
>   video/*; xdg-open %s
>   audio/*; xdg-open %s
> 
> Finally:
> 
>   (setq mime-play-find-every-situations nil)
> 
> This depends on having a command, `xdg-open`, that can deal with all
> types of files. This should be present on modern Linux desktops. I
> believe there is a similar command on a Mac.
> 
> Now I think that using `v` or `e` will find only one solution for
> every media type, either open in xdg-open or save using
> wl-mime-save-content.
> 
> best, Erik
> 
> At Tue, 07 Oct 2014 21:30:44 +1100, Greg Bognar wrote:
> > When I try to save an attachment by pressing `e'
> > (`mime-preview-extract-current-entity'), I get a prompt "Methods:".  Its
> > two options are `mime-save-content' and ` wl-mime-save-content'.  The
> > two functions do the same thing in slightly different ways.
> > 
> > Is there a way to avoid having this prompt each time I save an attachment?
> > Is there a variable that can record my preference?  It should not be
> > necessary to go through this step every time.
> > 
> > (Actually, I think the same question applies to
> > `mime-preview-play-current-entity' -- it should be possible to specify the
> > program(s) one uses to view attachments.)
> > 
> > Any tips would be appreciated,
> > Greg