mailcap on Windows WSL

[Jan Eden]

On 2024-10-08 08:26, Michael Kjörling wrote:

> On 8 Oct 2024 08:55 +0200, from mutt-users at mutt.org (Jan Eden via Mutt-users):
> > I need to use mutt within the WSL of MS Windows. To display HTML
> > mails via mailcap, I created a small script which reads from STDIN,
> > writes a temporary file and opens it with the Edge browser:
> > 
> > # ~/.mutt/mailcap
> > text/html; ~/.mutt/htmlviewer html
> > 
> > # ~/.mutt/htmlviewer
> > with open('/var/tmp/htmlfile', 'w') as tmp_file:
> > 	for line in sys.stdin:
> > 		tmp_file.write(line)
> > 
> > This works for some messages, but for others, a UnicodeEncodeError is
> > returned:
> 
> Try using something not quite as clever.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cat - >/var/tmp/htmlfile
> [whatever you need to do to open it in Edge goes here]
> 
> An alternative might be to offload to something like xdg-open or
> Windows' "start" from within the mailcap, if you can do that from
> within WSL; with or without "needsterminal" in the mailcap.

That looks definitely smarter than my "clever" solution (which worked
with the addition suggested by José).

Thank you,
Jan
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