[emacs-w3m:13853] Re: Support MIME type application/emacs-lisp

Katsumi Yamaoka <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:47:25 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.w3m
Organization Emacsen advocacy group
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In [emacs-w3m:13848]
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:55:42 -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
>> (assoc "application/emacs-lisp" w3m-content-type-alist)

> When I do that, I get 'nil'. Like I said, I have no problem displaying
> the page. It works fine for me.

If it returns nil, (by default?) emacs-w3m will prompt a user as

Content type for markdown-mode.el ("unknown" is unknown; just type <RET> to download or external-view): 

and be unable to quit it unless typing something there.

> Which commit inserted these changes? Looking at the Changelog file, I
> see the most recent mailcap-related change is 2019-11-11, and before
> that 2017-09-11.

<https://github.com/emacs-w3m/emacs-w3m/commit/3925d1c98338bdca35bbc489239a89ad1eee3d90>
(Oh, we cannot read this page properly using emacs-w3m...)

> Also, I'm not sure the reporter will get our responses. My response
> email to the reporter was bounced as un-deliverable. His address at
> fsf.org is a forwarder alias to a real address at u.washington.edu. The
> final email as re-composed by the fsf.org mailman and its combination
> header was rejected by the policy of the u.washington.edu mailman and
> bounced back to me.

To me too.  But there is nothing we can do for it, sigh.