From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:49:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87d27kby75.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> <87388mme16.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87a92u86wv.fsf@gnu.org> <87d27oliue.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3w2fgux.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <871to1f69o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87lhm9ayat.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4q8et2r.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87h9wwbzs7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vblces36.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418665814 27141 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2014 17:50:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:50:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 18:50:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Y0ZmZ-0007bn-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:50:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41247 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0ZmY-0007uE-OK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52285) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0Zm0-0007Pk-Am for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:49:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0Zlz-0007JM-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:49:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0Zlz-0007JI-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:49:31 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50411 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0Zly-0005wE-68; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:49:30 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 282A3DF323; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:49:18 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87vblces36.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Tue, 16 Dec 2014 02:33:01 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180169 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > > xdg-open does [open a help browser on the Emacs manual] here > > (basically same as gnome-open). > > I wonder how what happened. What does "ls -l `which xdg-open`" tell > you? -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13794 Jul 16 11:43 /usr/bin/xdg-open > Or maybe there's a common database for XDG-conforming utilities? Isn't that sort of the point? See, for example, > Anyway, it's hardly reliable if it doesn't work on another distro > (I've tried on Gentoo and Debian now). Probably depends on yelp being installed. -- David Kastrup