As there are a lot of Mutt/Neomutt users on this list, maybe someone can point me in the right direction. Recently via another mailing list a message was posted that included a diff file with the extension of .patch. The MIME encoding is shown as application/octet-stream, using Neomutt's view command. Pressing Enter on the file name resulting in Geany (GUI text editor) being opened with the file. Nothing in my ~/.mailcap nor anything in /etc/mailcap mapped Geany to this MIME encoding/file name. As I hadn't been using Geany, I removed it and added the following line to my ~/.mailcap: application/octet-stream; vim %s; description=Patch file; nametemplate=%s.patch Now Neomutt calls less to show the file! I'm left to be scratching my head as shown here: $ neomutt -nF /dev/null -Q mailcap_path set mailcap_path = "~/.mailcap:/usr/share/neomutt/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap" only ~/.mailcap and /etc/mailcap exist on my system. I see that less only shows twice in /etc/mailcap for text/plain and text/*, though the latter is followed by a text/* that specifies vim. In ~/.mailcp less is not shown anywhere. I'm rather puzzled, to say the least. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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