Re: feature request: more control over opening links

[Ross Patterson <me@rpatterson.net>]

"Samuel Wales" <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> Summary: C-u C-u to force opening in an external application.
>
> Detail:
>
> My ideal settings for opening links would by default have
> org-open-at-point and org-open-at-point-global open
> everything in emacs except for anything that makes little
> sense to open in emacs, such as PDF (whether http:// or a
> local filename).  This would include html pages on the web,
> which I want opened in emacs-w3m by default.
>
> Then, for cases where that does not work, C-u would open in
> emacs always.  C-u C-u would open in external always.
> "External" here means the OS default (e.g. the "open"
> command in OS X).
>
> That way, when I know that I want something different, I can
> force it.  (An alternate design is to reverse the sense of
> what org-file-apps says.  But then you have to think about
> what the default is and decide whether to reverse it.  This
> seems an unnecessary cognitive burden.)
>
> This seems not to be possible now.  If I set most things to
> open in Emacs, I think that there is no way to open it in
> the OS default.  Is that correct?

+1 - I like this idea a lot.

Ross