mimeo: open files by mimetype or file name

hully · 2022-12-24 11:16:13

@Xyne

Thank you

1. The link in the first post of this thread (http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/mimeo) doesn't work anymore. The new link seems to be https://xyne.dev/projects/mimeo/.

2. Is there a (git or other VCS) repository for mimeo?

Xyne · 2022-12-28 14:54:15

hully wrote:

1. The link in the first post of this thread (http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/mimeo) doesn't work anymore. The new link seems to be https://xyne.dev/projects/mimeo/.

Fixed, thanks.

hully wrote:

2. Is there a (git or other VCS) repository for mimeo?

It's on the way. I'm working through a TODO list for moving all of my projects to Gitlab and moving the website to Hugo but it's been slow due to limited free time.

hully · 2023-01-09 09:35:22

Thanks.

How does mimeo infer mimetype?

I have STATA scripts with .do extension. They are text files to be opened with STATA.

Sometimes mimeo infer "text/x-csrc", but sometimes it infer "text/plain"

Xyne · 2023-01-09 20:27:05

It uses Python's built-in MIME-types module and the "file" command, with an optional dependency on the "shared-mime-info" package.
Are you getting different results for the same file on the same system?
You could also try using regular expressions to obtain consistent results via the configuration file. See "mimeo --assoc-help" for details.

iojeda · 2023-01-21 03:04:55

Hi @Xyne
Thanks for this amazing piece of software.
I was trying to do the vlc example in the documentation but I don't really understand how to do it.
I do apologize if this questions are too stupid but I don't understand how to configure mimeo properly

In Association File Examples you have this

vlc --one-instance --playlist-enqueue %U
^https?://(www.)?youtube.com/watch\?.*v=

I have added that to ~/.config/mimeo/associations.txt

But still can't open youtube links with vlc. What am I missing?

Last edited by iojeda (2023-01-21 03:06:00)

progandy · 2023-01-21 09:10:36

What do you expect to happen?
This configuration is only for the mimeo command itself.
If you want to handle clicking a link in another application, then most should work if you replace xdg-open (e.g. install xdg-utils-mimeo from the AUR).
Browsers themselves do not ask the system how to open links, so for those you need to install addons.

hully · 2023-02-17 10:06:03

I am reading `mimeo --filepath-help`

> Pass en empty argument to disable the check"

"en" should be "an".

What does it mean to disable the check? That `$HOME/.config/mimeo/associations.txt` is not read even if present?

> --term 'urxvt -e %s' --deprecated"

The double quote at the end should be removed

Xyne · 2023-02-26 03:19:02

hully wrote:

What does it mean to disable the check? That `$HOME/.config/mimeo/associations.txt` is not read even if present?

Yes, the empty path will skip reading existing associations files (the previous sentence states that mimeo will check files for associations).

I have changed it to "Pass an empty string to skip existing files." and fixed the errors that you mentioned for the next release. Thanks for the feedback!

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