From: "Philip K." <philip@warpmail.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updating dired-guess-shell-alist-default
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 21:05:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2nv403r.fsf@warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <833663rx2l.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 07 Jul 2020 21:37:06 +0300)
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> I think it doesn't make sense to duplicate the functionalities that
>> already exist in modern desktop environments, so I'd propose remapping
>> most media files to "xdg-open", if available, which should be the case
>> on GNU/Linux, *BSD and similar operating system. AFAIK macOS has "open",
>> but I don't know if windows has an equivalent for that kind of a
>> system.
>
> So you suggest to use xdg-open if it's available, and otherwise do
> what? leave the current associations intact? or something else?
That's what I wanted to discuss, if I had a concrete suggestion I would
have submitted a patch.
All in all, I think that xdg-open and similar commands are more
practical than for example xpdf, xloadimage, etc. Systems with xpdf,
xloadimage, etc. but without xdg-open are probably an extreme minority,
but nobody can say for sure -- and changes shouldn't come at their
expense.
I was thinking about improving the guessing system to support multiple
programs and check their existence. Assuming the structure of
dired-guess-shell-alist-default may be changed, it would seem like a
good compromise.
--
Philip K.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-07 19:05 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. [this message]
2020-07-07 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-07 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-08 2:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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