From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: 14110@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc)
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:24:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhajm9soe.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2uanz3v.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:04:44 +0530")
> Leo suggests `dired-guess-shell-alist-user'. COMMAND there is a sexp,
> btw. So the above variable is also evil.
Yes. I also plead guilty of doing that a few times in the past.
It's still evil.
> There is one another reason why `dired-guess-shell-alist-user' will be
> improper to be used for Open semantics. IIRC, running a shell command
> .tex file compiles it. So equating shell command with open is
> confusing, btw.
I tend to agree, but:
- I can't think of anything useful "open" could do with a .tex file
other than pass it back to Emacs (which you can already do better by
opening the file in Emacs without going through "open").
While this might not apply to all cases, I suspect that most cases are
like that.
- That doesn't preclude using dired-guess-shell. It might just mean
that we should have maybe an alist for "run command" and another alist
for "open command" (and maybe a third alist to share the many common
cases between the two).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-04 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-01 6:57 bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc) Jambunathan K
2002-01-01 0:28 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-01 7:42 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-01 8:06 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-01 13:31 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-01 20:23 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-04 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-04 3:25 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-04 12:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-04 14:34 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-04 16:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-04-04 17:52 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-04 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 4:58 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-05 6:03 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-04-10 4:30 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-10 5:39 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-04-05 6:53 ` Leo Liu
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