zhenjiang xu <zhenjiang.xu@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's odd. The value of org-file-apps-defaults-gnu is:
>
> ((remote . emacs) (system . mailcap) (t . mailcap))
>
> And I checked my local mime file, which shows google-chrome is the default app to open html files:
>
> $ cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list 
> [Added Associations]
> application/epub+zip=FBReader.desktop;
> application/pdf=pdf.desktop;
> application/vnd.rn-realmedia=smplayer.desktop;
> application/x-matroska=smplayer.desktop;
> application/x-mimearchive=firefox.desktop;
> application/x-ole-storage=libreoffice-impress.desktop;
> audio/mpeg=audacious.desktop;
> text/html=google-chrome.desktop;
> video/mpeg=gnome-mplayer.desktop;
> x-scheme-handler/mailto=google-chrome.desktop;KMail2.desktop;
>
> [Default Applications]
> text/html=google-chrome.desktop
> x-scheme-handler/mailto=google-chrome.desktop
>
> Any idea?

Bastien pointed you to the mailcap files. The mailcap man page says

       $HOME/.mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/share/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap  --  default  path
       for mailcap files.

so those are the files to check.

Nick

>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
>
>     zhenjiang xu <zhenjiang.xu@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     > Thanks, Bastien. It's the default value - I've not changed it:
>     >
>     > org-file-apps is a variable defined in `org.el'.
>     > Its value is ((auto-mode . emacs)
>     >  ("\\.mm\\'" . default)
>     >  ("\\.x?html?\\'" . default)
>     >  ("\\.pdf\\'" . default))
>
>     So you need to check the relevant variable:
>
>     org-file-apps-defaults-gnu
>     org-file-apps-defaults-macosx
>     org-file-apps-defaults-windowsnt
>
>     If the relevant variable uses the defaults (as I guess),
>     you need to configure the mailcap file for your system
>
>     See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailcap
>
>     HTH,
>
>     --
>      Bastien
>
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