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bug#63911: Dired Open With
From: |
Björn Bidar |
Subject: |
bug#63911: Dired Open With |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Sep 2023 04:10:28 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:40:13 -0400
>>
>> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>> >
>> >> After using this for a while I noticed that most of the time
>> >> mailcap suggestions are useless - they don't contain the same
>> >> items as in the context menus of a File Manager. For example,
>> >> clicking the right mouse button on a ScreamTracker .stm file
>> >> opens a menu with Rhythmbox, and clicking on a ScreamTracker3
>> >> .s3m file opens a menu where the first item is Celluloid
>> >> and the second is Rhythmbox.
>> >>
>> >> So I implemented support for xdg commands that now displays exactly
>> >> the same menus in Emacs as in the File Manager, and with the same order.
>> >
>> > Agreed, it's better to use the xdg commands for this.
>>
>> Will this work (or at least not break) on mac or windows or
>> other non-xgd systems?
>
> The MS-Windows port already has a function that's the equivalent of
> xdg-open: w32-shell-execute. Patches to add this to the menu
> discussed here are welcome.
For macOS there's man 1 open which behaves very similar to xdg-open.
https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/open/