Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > They are basically the "open" commands for MacOS X and Windows, and > mailcap for Unix/Linux.
The suggestion below is met with some approval in the Orgmode mailist earlier. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-07/msg00407.html Here I go. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Turn `org-file-apps-defaults-gnu' (which is now a defconst) in to defcustom and make xdg-open the default (or make a drop down list with gnome-open, kde-open for people who don't have xdg-utils insalled) . (defconst org-file-apps-defaults-gnu '((remote . emacs) (system . mailcap) (t . mailcap)) "Default file applications on a UNIX or GNU/Linux system. See `org-file-apps'.") (custom-set-variables '(org-file-apps (quote ((auto-mode . emacs) ("\\.mm\\'" . default) ("\\.x?html?\\'" . default) ("\\.pdf\\'" . default)))) '(org-file-apps-defaults-gnu (quote ((remote . emacs) (system . "xdg-open %s") (t . mailcap))) t)) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Anyways, opening a file outside of Emacs is not specific to Org. Other applications can open facility, if available right within Emacs core. For some discussion surrounging - `open-file' - see http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14110