Re: [Orgmode] Choosing external app at runtime?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 19, 2010, at 7:53 PM, Ali Tofigh wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 04:18, Simon Guest  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > At Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:24:41 +0200,
> > Carsten Dominik wrote:
> > > On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Simon Guest wrote:
> > > > When I follow a link, Org mode knows what application to use.   
> > > > Except
> > > > that sometimes I want to override that choice.
> > >
> > > Currently we do not have this.  I can see that this could be both
> > > useful and annoying, if you have to answer a prompt each time.
> >
> > If the choice was only offered when a C-u prefix was given, it
> > wouldn't be annoying.

This is a reasonable approach - but I don't know how the Emacs mailcap  
interface treats multiple matches.  Who does?

Currently we use the C-u prefix to force opening a link in Emacs, but  
we can find a solution here.

A patch implementing the ability to select an application in this way  
would be seriously considered.

- Carsten