From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Wish] xdg-open, open from dired Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:47:30 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87639k4gn1.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <86bpjes51e.fsf@gmail.com> <863a4pswkk.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257731992 21479 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2009 01:59:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 01:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gilaras Drakeson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 09 02:59:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N7JXl-0005Bq-3b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:59:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44729 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7JXk-0004rr-Pn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:59:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7JUT-0002cy-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:56:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7JUP-0002am-S5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:56:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36810 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7JUP-0002aj-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:56:17 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:33643 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7JUP-00057E-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:56:17 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (62.65.208.58.cable.starman.ee [62.65.208.58]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5103F413E; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:56:10 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <863a4pswkk.fsf@gmail.com> (Gilaras Drakeson's message of "Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:13:15 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116728 Archived-At: > As far as I understand, `xdg-open', (fairly similar to what `open' does > on macosx), effectively does what "double clicking" on the file supplied > in its arguments would do. Are you aware that it's not recommended to use `xdg-open' because it is unreliable. Please see for more information: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/111843/focus=112044 -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/