Re: Handling external content attachment names with space

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From: Joachim Schrod
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:21

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Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Joachim Schrod wrote:
>> >
>> > > Incidentially, that looks as if the external-content program is
>> > > called via a shell. Anybody knows why that is done or if it can be
>> > > avoided? That behaviour opens up issues of shell command
>> > > insertions which would be more difficult if the program is called
>> > > directly.
> 
> Read the doc string for vm-mime-external-content-types-alist carefully:
> a single string is interpreted as a shell COMMAND-LINE and multiple
> strings are interepreted as PROGRAM ARG ARG ...
> 
> To prevent the shell from being invoked, change the entry to:
> ("application/pdf" "acroread" "%f")

Thanks for pointing this out. All my entries were wrong; I don't want the shell 
involved in any of them.

Well, I should have known it: if all else fails, read the documentation. :-)

	Joachim

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