Re: Gnus seems to not understand video/* syntax in mailcap files.

[Ben]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Ben Bacarisse <ben.lists@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>
>> My system is currently set up so that gnus happens to use mplayer to
>> open video mime parts but I'd like it, and other mailcap aware programs,
>> to use something else.  So I put the line
>>
>> video/*; totem %s
>>
>> into ~/.mailscap.  Checking with run-mailcap shows it to be working as
>> expected, but gnus continues to use mplayer.
>
> I can't find the string "mplayer" anywhere in the Gnus sources, so do
> you know where that setting is coming from?

It's in /etc/mailcap -- where system-wide settings are placed.  Gnus
reads /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap to determine what to do with mime
parts.

-- 
Ben.