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Re: Automatic Mime viewing

Peter Weiss - Sun Germany ENS Engineer Mission Critical - Munich <Peter.Weiss@germany.sun.com> writes:

>     How do I tell gnus (v5.8.7) to start xv for displaying jpegs
>     (hitting 'v' in the article buffer gnus allways asks me for a
>     viewer)? Neither the gnus info docs nor the emacs-mime info file
>     tell me how to set this up.

`v' is intended to ask for a viewer.  What happens when you hit `RET'?
If this starts the wrong program, make an entry in ~/.mailcap like so:

    image/jpeg; xv %s

I use `image/*' rather than `image/jpeg' because xv seems to be a good
program for all kinds of images.

kai
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