From: "Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 63911@debbugs.gnu.org, Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#63911: Dired Open With
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 04:10:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg1dae4b.fsf@thaodan.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ttsc8kn7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:01:16 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:40:13 -0400
>>
>> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>> >
>> >> After using this for a while I noticed that most of the time
>> >> mailcap suggestions are useless - they don't contain the same
>> >> items as in the context menus of a File Manager. For example,
>> >> clicking the right mouse button on a ScreamTracker .stm file
>> >> opens a menu with Rhythmbox, and clicking on a ScreamTracker3
>> >> .s3m file opens a menu where the first item is Celluloid
>> >> and the second is Rhythmbox.
>> >>
>> >> So I implemented support for xdg commands that now displays exactly
>> >> the same menus in Emacs as in the File Manager, and with the same order.
>> >
>> > Agreed, it's better to use the xdg commands for this.
>>
>> Will this work (or at least not break) on mac or windows or
>> other non-xgd systems?
>
> The MS-Windows port already has a function that's the equivalent of
> xdg-open: w32-shell-execute. Patches to add this to the menu
> discussed here are welcome.
For macOS there's man 1 open which behaves very similar to xdg-open.
https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/open/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-23 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-05 16:07 bug#63911: Dired Open With Juri Linkov
2023-06-23 16:27 ` Juri Linkov
2023-09-01 22:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-02 18:40 ` Howard Melman
2023-09-02 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-23 1:10 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-11-23 17:54 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-27 17:36 ` Juri Linkov
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