Re: Proposal: new alternatives links
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:05:04PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:09:00PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > Back to this issue: looking to the discussion I see that it doesn't make
> > > > much sence to use alternatives for such customisation. Instead, we need
> > > > some kind of magic application, which take the favorite
> > > > from users ~/.mime.types and ~/.mailcap and runs the appropriate
> > > > program. I imagine something like:
> > > >
> > > > autoopen lecture.mp3
> > > > autoopen foobar.html
> > > > autoopen --mime-type text/plain
> > > >
> > > > Did anyone create something like that, or should I invest my time into a
> > > > new project?
> > >
> > > Find out what package /etc/mime.types belongs to. display the contents of
> > > that package. Find the single file in that package with the x bit set
> > > (symlinks don't count :-P )
> > >
> > > Yes, it already exists ;-)
> > >
> >
> > /usr/bin/run-mailcap
> > /usr/bin/see
> > /usr/bin/edit
> > /usr/bin/compose
> > /usr/bin/print
>
> I *did* say "symlinks don't count".
>
> only run-mailcap is a file; the rest are all symlinks ;-)
>
> > BTW, I'm running sid.
>
> Me too
Oops, didn't check to see if they were symlinks...
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