Mailcap

mailcap associates mimetypes with commands used to display them.

TODO:

learn more about mailcap

Documentation

man mailcap

https://manpages.debian.org/buster/mime-support/mailcap.5.en.html

Locations

~/.mailcap

associate mimetypes with commands to launch them.

Configuration

Format

# %s is the file
# if %s is none, contents passed via STDIN
mime/type; command %s; # optional flags

Optional Flags.

copiousoutput  # program produces lots of text, shouuld be viewed in for example less.
needsterminal  # program requires a terminal to view

# ~/.mailcap

# Misc Files
application/pdf; /usr/bin/evince %s;

# Text/Emails
text/html; firefox %s; needsterminal
text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput;

# Images
image/*;    /usr/bin/feh %s; copiousoutput
image/jpeg;  feh -. %s
image/pjpeg; feh -. %s
image/png;   feh -. %s
image/gif;   feh -. %s
image/tiff;  feh -. %s

# Web
x-scheme-handler/about; qutebrowser %s
x-scheme-handler/https; qutebrowser %s
x-scheme-handler/http; qutebrowser %s
text/html; qutebrowser %s