From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18132: Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default? (dired-x.el) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 06:56:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83bns7ts83.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406692649 10465 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2014 03:57:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:57:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18132@debbugs.gnu.org To: Reuben Thomas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 30 05:57:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XCL0w-0000bW-DA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:57:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCL0v-0006t0-JZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCL0m-0006s2-Mr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:57:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCL0g-00031r-Jr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCL0g-00031m-GQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XCL0g-0007FA-1O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:57:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:57:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18132 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18132-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18132.140669256427759 (code B ref 18132); Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:57:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18132) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jul 2014 03:56:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42456 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XCKzk-0007Df-2k for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:56:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:37324) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XCKzg-0007D9-Pq for 18132@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N9I00700A5CMZ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 18132@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 06:55:53 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N9I007WZAX5KJ70@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 06:55:53 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:91962 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:26:07 +0100 > From: Reuben Thomas > > These days, there are mature programs for launching an arbitrary file with > an appropriate viewer: run-mailcap (which is mature to the point of > obsolescence) and xdg-open on GNU systems; open on Mac OS X; start on MS > Windows). It would be a bad idea to use 'start' on Windows: it has too many quirks regarding quoting of its command line. Instead, just invoke the existing primitive w32-shell-execute with the 'open' verb. As a nice side effect, this will support Unicode file names, something that is currently impossible when you invoke an external command.