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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Choosing external app at runtime?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:24:41 +0200
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On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Simon Guest wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When I follow a link, Org mode knows what application to use.  Except
> that sometimes I want to override that choice.
>
> For example, I have a collection of PDF files.  Mostly I want to open
> them in my statically configured PDF viewer, which is fine.  But
> sometimes I want to open one in Xournal, say, to annotate it.
>
> My mail client Wanderlust will ask me in cases like this: if multiple
> mailcap entries match, I get to choose when opening the attachment.
>
> Any chance we could do a similar thing in Org mode?

Currently we do not have this.  I can see that this could be both  
useful and annoying, if you have to answer a prompt each time.

- Carsten