bug#19270: 25.0.50; Make PDF Mode in EWW customizable

[Rüdiger Sonderfeld]

On Thursday 04 December 2014 17:29:06 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > IOW, maybe adding configurability to EWW is good in itself, but I think
> > your use case would be better served by a config elsewhere, which would
> > cover EWW as well as other cases where we might want to view PDF files.
> 
> Yes, this sounds like a good idea.  We already have too many ways to
> customise this stuff.
> 
> `auto-mode-alist' is used for file-ending-based discovery, and
> `mailcap-mime-data' (etc.) is used for MIME-based decisions.  The latter
> would make more sense in eww, but I don't think anybody has been
> maintaining that much.  For instance, `doc-view-mode-maybe' is not a
> default there, which it should be.
> 
> Perhaps we need a MIME type to file ending map.  :-)

I'd also like to point out, that we have a `eww-use-external-browser-for-
content-type' variable.  Maybe there is a way to incorporate this as well?

Regards,
Rüdiger