From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de,
stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Generic Elisp mechanism to declare file/URI handlers for Emacs
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:46:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o7hycm3p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyyenwge.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:06:57 +0000)
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>, eliz@gnu.org,
> stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:06:57 +0000
>
> I agree that it is not difficult. But it is very easy to miss
> implementing a new scheme on _all_ the supported OSes. For example, I
> have no idea if Emacs even provides something similar to .desktop file
> on MacOS and Windows.
The "Open With" feature of the file managers on MS-Windows is not
determined by files like the XDG *.desktop files, it is determined by
system-wide "file-associations" that are modified by special commands
and/or settings offered by relevant applications. (The associations
themselves are recorded in the Registry, of course.) Emacs on
MS-Windows can thereafter make use of these associations via the
w32-shell-execute primitive.
So I don't see how we could offer something like that for Windows; we
learned long ago that including scripts or programs that write into
the Registry is a two-edged sword, so we refrain from doing that
nowadays.
> I mostly thought about file type handling.
> Wouldn't it be nice to allow built-in major modes also make Emacs
> register as application capable to open the corresponding file
> type/extension.
Most of this setup is not in Emacs at all, it is in the OS outside
Emacs and in other applications. At least on MS-Windows.
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2023-09-19 11:14 ` Generic Elisp mechanism to declare file/URI handlers for Emacs (was: bug#65469: [PATCH] * etc/emacsclient.desktop: Make Emacs default application for org-protocol) Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-19 11:44 ` Generic Elisp mechanism to declare file/URI handlers for Emacs Po Lu
2023-09-19 13:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-19 13:25 ` Po Lu
2023-09-20 9:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 9:57 ` Po Lu
2023-09-20 11:17 ` Should Emacs declare itself as being able to open all the text/* mimetypes? (was: Generic Elisp mechanism to declare file/URI handlers for Emacs) Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 12:23 ` Should Emacs declare itself as being able to open all the text/* mimetypes? Po Lu
2023-09-20 12:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-19 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-09-19 13:56 ` Generic Elisp mechanism to declare file/URI handlers for Emacs Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20 11:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-19 16:28 ` Generic Elisp mechanism to declare file/URI handlers for Emacs (was: bug#65469: [PATCH] * etc/emacsclient.desktop: Make Emacs default application for org-protocol) Jim Porter
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