Re: [Orgmode] Open link with different suffix in org mode

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Xin Shi wrote:

> Hello Experts,
>
> I'm using Emacs 23.1.1 and org mode 6.34b.  In the org file, if I  
> use a link say [[./link.org][test]], it will open the link.org file  
> in another buffer with orgmode. It will be also true, if I use [[./ 
> link.txt][link test]], which will open a link.txt file with Text  
> mode. However, if I do the following:
>
> [[./test.info][test]], it will just hang there. It seems that org  
> does not know how to deal with the .info suffix. Are there any way  
> to set the org to open different link?
> I've read the org manual, but didn't find the solution. Any  
> suggestions?

Hi Xin,

one solution is to customize the variable org-file-apps and
add to an entry like this:

            Choice:   Value Menu   Extension: \.info\'
            Choice:   Value Menu   Visit with Emacs

Any file types that have an major-mode assigned to it using
auto-mode-alist will already be visited by Emacs automatically,
but .info is not one of those file types.  So another solution
would be something like the following in your setup.

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.info\\'" . text-mode))

Actualy, this is probably the better solution.

HTH

- Carsten