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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Philip K." <philip@warpmail.net>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Updating dired-guess-shell-alist-default
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 02:52:07 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8WN-U+gROM-eVfix79pPLr7TSBRSiToswnX-qD2LF9gNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y2nvqgbc.fsf@gnu.org>

On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 02:24, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> I mean, you said our current database is "not modern", so that
> probably means xdg-open invokes other programs, and I think it would
> be good to know the differences, so we have something tangible to talk
> about.

What xdg-open invokes depends on the installed applications and, if
multiple applications are registered for handling a MIME type, on user
preferences.

On Windows, the closest analogy is file type associations via the registry.

Both are better than a hard-coded list of applications that might or
might not be installed on the user’s machine, and, if installed, might
or might not be their preference.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-07 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-07  8:50 Updating dired-guess-shell-alist-default Philip K.
2020-07-07 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-07 16:10   ` Philip K.
2020-07-07 18:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-07 19:05       ` Philip K.
2020-07-07 19:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-07 19:48           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-08  2:25             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-08  4:12               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-07 19:52           ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2020-07-08  2:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-08  2:48               ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2020-07-08  7:52                 ` tomas
2020-07-07 20:38           ` Philip K.
2020-07-08  2:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-08  4:15               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-08 14:21                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-08 15:08                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-08  8:28               ` Philip K.
2020-07-08 14:24                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-08 14:33                   ` Philip K.
2020-07-09 16:21 ` Philip K.
2020-07-11 10:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-11 11:07     ` Philip K.
2020-07-11 11:15       ` Eli Zaretskii

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