Re: Cannot open attachments with gnus

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:19:09 +0100 Alan Schmitt 
<alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> wrote: 

AS> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>> I think so.  My system doesn't have `open' so I don't know if it has an
>> option to run synchronously, but you could either write a wrapper script
>> or set up the MIME handling to call the PDF viewer directly.

AS> I managed to make "open" open files synchronously (tip 1: use the "-W"
AS> flag, tip 2: restarting gnus is not sufficient for the updated .mailcap
AS> to be taken into account, I had restart emacs). It works, but I'm a bit
AS> worried about performance.

AS> As I'm using long running applications, I have a bunch of processes
AS> "open ..." that keep running (and will keep running until I quit the
AS> app). Even worse, if I understand the code correctly, each time I open
AS> an attachment from gnus, there will be an emacs process waiting for the
AS> application to quit (even though the window showing the document has
AS> long been closed). Are they light enough that I should not worry about
AS> having dozens of them around?

Sorry, I don't know the answer.  Maybe in the Gnus "ding" mailing list
someone will know?

I'm glad you found something that works for now, either way!

Ted