On 12/08/2010 08:02 PM, Ivan Maidanski wrote: > I remember you (or someone else) had pointed me about of > inconvenience of reading my patches in the form they were attached > and I had promised to use ".diff.txt" file extension but forgot > about it after a long delay. (there is such problem in, say, hpl.com > mailing list where I frequently send my patches to; besides, I have > no problem in opening the attachment in the link below in Firefox > which I use). I apologies for the inconvenience and I'll try to keep > in my mind that it's better to use .txt extension when posting to > this ML. This turns out to be a known Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327323 The bugzilla shows a way around this problem. I appended the following line to my .mailcap: application/octet-stream;/usr/bin/emacs "%u" So, at least it is now possible to see the patches without first saving them and then opening in an editor as a separate action. Note that I am not recommending that anyone use incorrect MIME-types in future, just that there is at least a workaround. Andrew.
