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#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:20:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83li8yf98m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zjxi4u15.fsf@gmail.com> <871uarou3r.fsf@gmail.com> <87d2uanz3v.fsf@gmail.com> <878v4ygp3u.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365099665 8213 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2013 18:21:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:21:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 14110@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 04 20:21:32 2013 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 1UNomu-0008QU-6s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:21:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNomV-0006zx-AL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNomO-0006yW-QZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:21:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNomJ-0003vN-TG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:58075) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNomJ-0003vB-Pg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UNopN-0007Mt-SU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:24:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:24:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14110 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14110-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14110.136509982328297 (code B ref 14110); Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:24:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14110) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Apr 2013 18:23:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33951 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UNop5-0007ML-LK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:51812) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UNop4-0007ME-61 for 14110@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:23:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKQ00500TKOZW00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 14110@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:20:03 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKQ005F3TLFZU00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:20:03 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <878v4ygp3u.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.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:73166 Archived-At: > From: Jambunathan K > Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:22:37 +0530 > Cc: 14110@debbugs.gnu.org > > The alist is already maintained by the user's desktop (likely via > Explore->`Open with' -> `Always use this application for these files'). > Emacs should at no point in time have any knowledge of this association. Emacs can easily know about the associations, at least on Windows. > To accommodate other systems which are non-desktopy (DOS?), we can > enhance the shell-command history var to be a (cons FILE-EXTENSION > VIEWER). This will be an exception rather than the norm. That's meaningless on DOS, which is a single-process system.