run-mailcap --action=view "$1":"$2" > output.stdout 2> output.stderr
}
-MIMETYPE="$1"
-TEMPFILE=$(tempfile -d . -p mutt -s $(guess_extension "$MIMETYPE"))
+MIMETYPE="$1"; shift
+
+get_file() {
+ local t
+ if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+ t=$(tempfile -d . -p mutt -s $(guess_extension "$MIMETYPE"))
+ cat > "$t"
+ echo "$t"
+ else
+ t="$(echo ${1##*/} | sed -re 's![^[:alnum:],.@%^+=_-]!_!gi')"
+ cp "$1" "$t"
+ echo "$t"
+ fi
+}
+
+notify_output() {
+ if [ -s "$TMPDIR/output.stdout" ] || [ -s "$TMPDIR/output.stderr" ]; then
+ notify $TMPDIR/output.stdout $TMPDIR/output.stderr \
+ "Output from mutt/$SELF on $BASENAME"
+ fi
+}
case "$SELF" in
(bgrun)
# make a copy of the file, then launch a shell process in the background
# to divert to run-mailcap, after which the temporary directory gets
# cleaned up.
- cat > "$TEMPFILE"
+ FILE="$(get_file "${1:-}")"
(
- launch_viewer "$MIMETYPE" "$TEMPFILE"
- if [ -s "$TMPDIR/output.stdout" ] || [ -s "$TMPDIR/output.stderr" ]; then
- notify $TMPDIR/output.stdout $TMPDIR/output.stderr \
- "Output from mutt/$SELF on $BASENAME"
- fi
+ launch_viewer "$MIMETYPE" "$FILE"
+ notify_output
+ sleep 1
cleanup
) &
trap - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15
# hack to stay around until the viewer has read the file: make a fifo and
# wait for the cat process to finish writing to it, which means that it
# must have been consumed on the other end.
- cat > "$TEMPFILE"
- FIFO="${TEMPFILE%/*}/fifo-${TEMPFILE##*/}"
+ FILE="$(get_file "${1:-}")"
+ FIFO="${FILE%/*}/fifo-${FILE##*/}"
mkfifo "$FIFO"
- cat "$TEMPFILE" > "$FIFO" &
+ cat "$FILE" > "$FIFO" &
# For some reason, we do have to write a tempfile and cannot seem to
# redirect stdin directly to the fifo, i.e. this does not work instead of
# the previous three lines:
## cat > "$FIFO" &
launch_viewer "$MIMETYPE" "${FIFO}"
+ notify_output
wait
cleanup
;;
+ (bgrun-delay)
+ # hack to stay around for a fixed period of time after the viewer process
+ # returns control to the caller, so that we can clean up. This is for
+ # cases when the FIFO method doesn't work, because e.g. Firefox randomly
+ # chooses it needs to read HTML files twice.
+ FILE="$(get_file "${1:-}")"
+ (launch_viewer "$MIMETYPE" "${FILE}" && notify_output) &
+ (sleep 1m && cleanup) &
+ ;;
esac