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Re: [O] org-open-file with xdg-open not working?


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: [O] org-open-file with xdg-open not working?
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:19:07 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to open files externally (via org-attach), with a mailcap
>> that funnels most everything to xdg-open. I notice that doing this with
>> org-open-file gives me:
>>
>> Running xdg-open /home/me/path/to/file.PDF...done
>>
>> But no actual open file.
>>
>> Doing a similar thing in gnus, with the `gnus-mime-view-part-externally'
>> command, gives me a similar message about xdg-open, but then the file
>> actually opens.
>>
>> Presumably that's because the gnus version (eventually
>> `mm-display-external') calls xdg-open with `call-process' and org does
>> it with `start-process-shell-command'. The first is synchronous, the
>> second asynchronous, and I do remember seeing something on one of these
>> lists about difficulties with xdg-open because the process returns
>> before the file actually opens, or *doesn't* return, or some similar
>> thing the details of which I'm forgetting.
>>
>> Have other people run into this difficulty?
>
> Yes.
>
>> How are you solving it?
>
> By not using xdg-open: I tend to add explicit entries in my .mailcap instead.

Well pooh... not the answer I was hoping for!




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