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Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap



* On 2021 15 Sep 14:20 -0500, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 02:01:23PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 12:58:10PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > > * On 2021 15 Sep 10:44 -0500, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > > > What does this command report?
> > > > 
> > > >     ;see --norun application/octet-stream:/dev/null
> 
> > Jonathan's message confused me too.  As far as I can tell, "see" is
> > a *shell* command, not a mutt command [...]
> 
> Perhaps the semicolon was intended to be an exclamation mark (!)
> (although, assuming Jonathan has a USish keyboard layout they are
> far apart indeed).

Indeed!  That works.

I missed it in the help list as my mind was fixated on the ;.  Other
programs like Vim use ! as a means to execute a shell command.

It should have been so obvious...

- Nate

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