Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file

[Nick Dokos]

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> On 18.9.2013, at 14:14, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:
> ...
>> I think that is expected.  The bug is in the desktop specific open
>> commands.  Since you use none, generic open is used.  That is simply a
>> shell function, and does the right thing.
>
> Is there a generic open command in Linux?  Why don't we use this instead?
>

Not really. There is a shell function called open_generic inside of
xdg-open. I believe that's what Suvayu was referring to. But there is
no clean way of calling it, short of pulling it out of the xdg-open
script into a new script: as a general solution, that's hopeless.

-- 
Nick