Mailcap for .docx files (using docx2txt or similar)

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Fri Jan 22 14:07:35 UTC 2021


On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 06:24:22PM +0530, Chinmaya Nagpal wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:35:46PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > So, it would be handy to have mutt configured to use one to view .docx
> > files.  I'm sure somebody must have done this already so what does the
> > ~/.mailcap entry have to look like?
> 
> This works for pandoc:  
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document; 
> pandoc --from docx --to markdown %s; copiousoutput 
> 
Wonderful!  I'd never come across pandoc before, it seems to be able
to do almost anything!  ... and it's maintained/up to date.

Thank you.

> Source:  
> https://raymii.org/s/articles/Viewing_PDF_docx_and_odt_files_in_Mutt.html

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Chris Green


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