From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cannot open attachments with gnus Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:00:37 +0100 Organization: IRISA, INRIA Rennes (FR) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387354824 4071 80.91.229.3 (18 Dec 2013 08:20:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:20:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 18 09:20:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VtCMj-00032o-2U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:20:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VtCMi-0001mM-8e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:20:24 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: top-wifi.irisa.fr Original-X-Trace: news-v3.irisa.fr 1387353636 13253 131.254.66.192 (18 Dec 2013 08:00:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@irisa.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:00:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7stQXaspOjYwH1PIzKx+97RwJBY= Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feed.ac-versailles.fr!news.ecp.fr!news-rocq.inria.fr!news.irisa.fr!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202807 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95076 Archived-At: Hi, Jambunathan K writes: > If you are on Debian, install xdg-utils which will give you xdg-open. > If I change the default extension-to-application mapping in Thunar (I > use XFCE) then the viewer gets chosen automatically. > > See bug report rooted at > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/75043 > > for some issues surrounding xdg-open. Thank you for the suggestion. I am on OS X, but looking at xdg-open, it looks very similar to the "open" command line tool I use. Is xdg-open asynchronous (i.e., does it return immediately after opening the file)? If so, how do you tell gnus to wait before deleting the temporary file? Thanks, Alan