From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc) Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:28:01 +0530 Message-ID: <878v4x1sme.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87zjxi4u15.fsf@gmail.com> <871uarou3r.fsf@gmail.com> <87d2uanz3v.fsf@gmail.com> <878v4ygp3u.fsf@gmail.com> <83li8yf98m.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365137944 6151 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2013 04:59:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 04:59:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 14110@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 05 06:59:32 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 1UNykI-0001So-Rf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from debian-6.05 ([115.242.147.216]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ti8sm12878129pbc.12.2013.04.04.21.58.10 (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:58:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83li8yf98m.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:20:41 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:73174 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. On my Debian/Squeeze, this is what I have ended up with. ,---- | $ xdg-mime query filetype images/vanilla-emacs.png | image/png; charset=binary `---- ,---- | $ xdg-mime query default image/png | gimp.desktop `---- ,---- | $ dpkg -L gimp | grep desktop | /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-desktop-link | /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop `---- ,---- | $ cat /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop | grep Exec | Exec=gimp-2.6 %U | TryExec=gimp-2.6 `---- ,---- | $ gimp- | gimp-2.6 gimp-console gimp-console-2.6 `---- There should be a way to go directly from *.desktop file to Exec entry. I haven't figured it out or it is in the works. Surprisingly, the above sequence fails for ODT files. ,---- | $ xdg-mime query filetype book.odt | application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text; charset=binary `---- ,---- | $ xdg-mime query default application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text | `---- I believe xdg-stuff is in it's initial stages and not so reliable at this moment.