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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252756 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Does xdg-open invoke different programs than what we have now in > dired-guess-shell-alist-default? Is there a way to know what it > invokes for each file type? > > I mean, you said our current database is "not modern", so that > probably means xdg-open invokes other programs, and I think it would > be good to know the differences, so we have something tangible to talk > about. It will usually invoke whatever is the default on a given system, so for a .pdf a GNOME desktop would use Evince while KDE would open it in Okular. If a user changes their "preferred applications", xdg-open should also change it's behaviour (hence the point with "configured outside of Emacs" I mentioned before). -- Philip K.