From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 18132@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18132: Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default? (dired-x.el)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 15:42:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86jzjm6mrb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v836z8h6.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 22 May 2024 09:16:18 +0300)
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> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 18132@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 09:16:18 +0300
>
> > I completely agree. This is what I tried to do,
> > but couldn't find a way to refactor this amalgamation
> > in dired-guess-shell-alist-default. We need to split it
> > to two parts, so users without XDG will have:
> >
> > 1. better ones from dired-guess-shell-alist-default
> > 2. worse ones from dired-guess-shell-alist-default
> >
> > And users with XDG should be able to have:
> >
> > 1. better ones from dired-guess-shell-alist-default
> > 2. XDG commands
> > 3. worse ones from dired-guess-shell-alist-default
> >
> > Probably I'll move the worse ones to a new variable
> > 'dired-guess-shell-alist-default-2'.
>
> Ok, here is a new list 'dired-guess-shell-alist-optional'
> that contains rare commands that don't exist on many systems.
>
> So now the default order of a list of commands to select with M-n
> for M-!, ! in Dired and the Dired context menu with this patch
> is the following:
>
> 1. commands from dired-guess-shell-alist-user
> 2. commands from dired-guess-shell-alist-default
> 3. commands found by XDG on user's system
> 4. commands found by mailcap on user's system
> 5. rare commands from dired-guess-shell-alist-optional
What about optionally letting the system facilities present the menu
of appropriate commands and let the user select from that menu? E.g.,
on MS-Windows I can do
(w32-shell-execute "openas" "d:/foo/bar/baz.pdf")
and get this menu to select from:
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I'd expect XDG to be able to do something very similar, can it? If
so, can we offer that as optional behavior?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-22 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-28 18:26 bug#18132: Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default? (dired-x.el) Reuben Thomas
2014-07-28 18:44 ` bug#18132: Sample code Reuben Thomas
2014-07-29 23:49 ` bug#18132: Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default? (dired-x.el) Juri Linkov
2014-07-30 9:12 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-07-30 16:32 ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-30 16:44 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-04 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2014-08-05 9:41 ` Reuben Thomas
2021-10-23 5:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-23 8:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-23 9:48 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-23 13:06 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-23 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-23 13:01 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-23 13:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23 14:03 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-23 15:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23 17:17 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-23 20:53 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-24 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 7:56 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-23 17:49 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-23 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-24 7:51 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-24 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-25 18:10 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-26 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-27 17:32 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-28 17:05 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-28 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-29 7:09 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-29 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-02 17:44 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-02 18:37 ` Drew Adams
2023-12-03 17:04 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-03 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2023-12-06 17:28 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-07 17:33 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-07 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-08 7:37 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-08 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-09 17:13 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-22 6:16 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-22 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-05-23 6:19 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-23 7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-23 17:31 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-23 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-24 6:44 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-24 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-24 17:56 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-23 17:57 ` Howard Melman
2021-10-23 18:29 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-23 19:22 ` bug#18132: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-24 16:35 ` Howard Melman
2021-10-24 19:08 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-24 5:10 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2014-07-30 3:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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