Re: Cannot open attachments with gnus

[Alan Schmitt]

Hi,

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> If you are on Debian, install xdg-utils which will give you xdg-open.
> If I change the default extension-to-application mapping in Thunar (I
> use XFCE) then the viewer gets chosen automatically.
>
> See bug report rooted at
>
>     http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/75043
>
> for some issues surrounding xdg-open.

Thank you for the suggestion. I am on OS X, but looking at xdg-open, it
looks very similar to the "open" command line tool I use.

Is xdg-open asynchronous (i.e., does it return immediately after opening
the file)? If so, how do you tell gnus to wait before deleting the
temporary file?

Thanks,

Alan