Bug#466872: vim: "view -" no longer works

Dafydd Harries daf at debian.org
Thu Feb 21 15:17:06 UTC 2008


Package: vim
Severity: normal

I am in the habit of piping commands to "view -" so that I can copy parts of
the output into other files, or just for syntax hilighting. This used to work,
but I now get the following error:

  Warning: unknown mime-type for "-" -- using "application/*"
  Error: no "view" mailcap rules found for type "application/*"

view exits with status 3.

Piping to "vi -" still works.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=cy_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cy_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash





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