From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nick Dokos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to open some files in emacs with emacs 25.3. Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:40:30 -0400 Message-ID: <87vaklyy9d.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <878thi27sk.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <868thifw2y.fsf@zoho.com> <87shfqzffl.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87tw061icc.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> <87tw05440p.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505410888 25374 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2017 17:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:41:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 14 19:41:25 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dsY8j-0006VV-2X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:41:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsY8p-0002Yk-1A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38117) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsY8J-0002YU-Hv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsY8G-0007MF-Bo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39871 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsY85-0007EL-4F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:40:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dsY7s-0005Id-0Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:40:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:cVcYEdaWTp5XzkAmBv23iXS4y94= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114280 Archived-At: Sharon Kimble writes: >> Why is calligraauthor running? Can you take it out of the >> loop altogether? > > calligraauthor is not running until it is called by emacs calling it. > Poor choice of words. I meant: something in emacs is calling calligraauthor. What is that something? Find it and fix it. There is no way that that something is built-in to emacs. Have you tried with emacs -Q? >> >> Can you run it from the command line and see if it completes? It >> seems to pop up a window when I do that, so I'm not sure if emacs is >> waiting for the application to finish before continuing. > > Unfortunately not. calligraauthor opens very easily with no problems on > its own, and it also opens 'boudiccas.crontab' with zero problems once > calligraauthor is launched on its own. But if it is started by emacs, emacs may be waiting for it to finish before it continues. > > I suspect that there is something hard-wired into the new version of > emacs which forces emacs to open up some links in calligraauthor, > instead of emacs itself, as it used to do with emacs-25.1. > I doubt that very much. This is something in your setup. Check your .mailcap, and the variables that is used to open applications: org-file-apps and org-file-apps-default-gnus (or -macosz or -windowsnt, depending on your system). -- Nick