From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: philip@warpmail.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updating dired-guess-shell-alist-default
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 05:25:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v9iyrbdu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvimezhzxx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:48:26 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: "Philip K." <philip@warpmail.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:48:26 -0400
>
> > So you suggest to use xdg-open if it's available, and otherwise do
> > what? leave the current associations intact? or something else?
>
> Actually, that might be a good&simple solution, yes.
If the current associations are way off, that would be simple but
somewhat wrong, IMO.
> > Does xdg-open invoke different programs than what we have now in
> > dired-guess-shell-alist-default?
>
> It all depends on the system you have (and the tools that are
> installed), but yes, xpdf and xloadimage seem rather outdated (they
> still exist but are much less popular than they once were).
What is used in their stead?
> > Is there a way to know what it invokes for each file type?
>
> Do you mean for use to know statistically what it uses most often,
> or for Emacs to determine it at runtime?
The former.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-08 2:25 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 [this message]
2020-07-08 4:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-07 19:52 ` Yuri Khan
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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