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bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-
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Jambunathan K |
Subject: |
bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc) |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:22:37 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> 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.
`open-file' command (as I see it) will do what a "double click" in
Windows Explorer or Thunar will do. Note that each popular
`system-type' already has a open command.
In Windows + MikTex, double-clicking on a .tex will open a specialized
viewer (IIRC, it is called yap).
More importantly, `open-file' on a directory will launch Windows
explorer or Thunar or Nautilus.
> - 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).
Big NO for having an alist (within Emacs) for the open command.
The alist is already maintained by the user's desktop (likely via
Explore->`Open with' -> `Always use this application for these files').
Emacs should at no point in time have any knowledge of this association.
To accommodate other systems which are non-desktopy (DOS?), we can
enhance the shell-command history var to be a (cons FILE-EXTENSION
VIEWER). This will be an exception rather than the norm.
> Stefan
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Jambunathan K, 2013/04/01
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Stefan Monnier, 2013/04/03
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Jambunathan K, 2013/04/03
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Stefan Monnier, 2013/04/04
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Jambunathan K, 2013/04/04
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Stefan Monnier, 2013/04/04
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc),
Jambunathan K <=
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/04
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Jambunathan K, 2013/04/05
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Thierry Volpiatto, 2013/04/05
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Jambunathan K, 2013/04/10
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Thierry Volpiatto, 2013/04/10
- bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc), Leo Liu, 2013/04/05