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bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft
From: |
N. Jackson |
Subject: |
bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?) |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:03:27 -0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
tags 21331 notabug
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At 14:26 -0300 on Monday 2015-08-24, Glenn Morris wrote:
> I guess this is related to mailcap. Examine your /etc/mailcap file and
> the value of Emacs's mailcap-mime-data.
Thanks Glenn, you are quite right.
And it's right there in the manual at (info "(gnus) Using MIME"):
The following commands are available when you have placed point over
a MIME button:
‘RET (Article)’
‘BUTTON-2 (Article)’
Toggle displaying of the MIME object (‘gnus-article-press-button’).
If built-in viewers can not display the object, Gnus resorts to
external viewers in the ‘mailcap’ files.
...
I had searched the manual for "attachment" instead of for "MIME" which
was why I missed it.
It turns out that I had the line
application/msword; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
in my mailcap file and that was causing the behaviour I observed. I
guess I mis-remembered that other Microsoft Office documents were opened
correctly from Gnus (or perhaps that was on another system).
For completeness, I can report that with the following lines in my
/etc/mailcap
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.database; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/msword; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/vnd.ms-excel; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/vnd.ms-access; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document;
/usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation;
/usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet;
/usr/bin/xdg-open %s
all of .odt, .ods, .odp, .odb, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx
files now open as desired in LibreOffice. (I was unable to test with
.mdb files as I don't have a program on my system that will open them.)
So not a bug.
Sorry for the noise.
- bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?), N. Jackson, 2015/08/23
- bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?), Richard Stallman, 2015/08/23
- bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?), Glenn Morris, 2015/08/24
- bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?),
N. Jackson <=
- bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?), Richard Stallman, 2015/08/25
- bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?), Michael Welsh Duggan, 2015/08/26
- bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?), Glenn Morris, 2015/08/26
- bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?), Rasmus, 2015/08/26
- bug#21331: mailcap (was Re: bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support...), N. Jackson, 2015/08/26
- bug#21331: mailcap (was Re: bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support...), N. Jackson, 2015/08/26
- bug#21331: mailcap (was Re: bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support...), Richard Stallman, 2015/08/27