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Re: [PLUG] Confused about using cacview with mutt and mailcap entries
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On Thursday 01 June 2006 12:41 am, Mike Leone wrote:
> So I want to use cacaview, to view jpegs from within mutt, for when I read
> email over an ssh tunnel. This is using debian testing. So I installed the
> cacautils package, and verified that cacaview works. (JPGs still look like
> crap, but I suppose it's better than nothing ...)
>
> Anyway, I'm confused about the mailcap entries. I have this,
in /etc/mailcap:
>
> image/jpeg; /usr/bin/cacaview '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
>
> but when I try and view an attachment that mutt says is "image/jpeg", mutt
> tells me "No matching mailcap entry found. Viewing as text". So what am I
> doing wrong? Mailcap files confuse me. :-)
>
> And if anybody knows of a way to view images (JPGs, specifically) in a
> commad-line terminal that even remotely looks like the image, I'm eager to
> hear about it.
>
> Thanks
I'm not sure how they did it (it's been years since I used it) but the
w3m terminal browser had a way to display images in a terminal that
worked amazingly well. Perhaps it's method(s) could be adapted?
Eric
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