Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and what in fact did happen. You don't know how to make a good report? See
http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If I customize org-file-apps's system command to be "xdg-open %s", then customize the default command to be the system command, xdg-open is not used as the default command, which is confusing; I have to duplicate the configuration as shown below in order to get the desired behavior, which seems to contradict the documentation, which says: This command is specified by the entry whose car is `system'. Most likely, the system-specific version of this variable does define this command, but you can overrule/replace it here. There is a possible ambiguity: maybe for the default command, the value "system" means "the system default", not the setting for the system command? (That would seem unfortunate and confusing were it the case.) Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.2) of 2013-07-27 on roseapple, modified by Debian Package: Org-mode version 8.2.5h (release_8.2.5h-620-g7fd183 @ /home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/package/elpa/org-20140210/) current state: ============== (setq org-export-backends '(ascii html icalendar latex odt) org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe org-src-native-tab-command-maybe org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe org-babel-header-arg-expand) org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-default-hook org-babel-speed-command-hook) org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter) org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe) org-html-format-drawer-function '(lambda (name contents) contents) org-latex-format-inlinetask-function 'ignore org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-ascii-format-inlinetask-function 'org-ascii-format-inlinetask-default org-file-apps '((auto-mode . emacs) ("\\.mm\\'" . default) ("\\.x?html?\\'" . default) ("\\.pdf\\'" . default) (t . "xdg-open %s") (system . "xdg-open %s")) org-latex-format-headline-function 'org-latex-format-headline-default-function org-default-notes-file "~/org/Notes.org" org-startup-indented t org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current) org-latex-format-drawer-function '(lambda (name contents) contents) org-odt-format-headline-function 'ignore org-from-is-user-regexp "\\<Reuben Thomas\\>" org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer) org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text) org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer) org-mode-hook '(window-margin-mode #[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207" [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-block-all append local] 5] #[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207" [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result-all append local] 5] org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes turn-on-eldoc-mode) org-ascii-format-drawer-function '(lambda (name contents width) contents) org-odt-format-inlinetask-function 'ignore org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook '(org-babel-hash-at-point org-babel-execute-safely-maybe) org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-drawers org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks org-cycle-show-empty-lines org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change) org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe) org-odt-format-drawer-function '(lambda (name contents) contents) org-html-format-headline-function 'ignore org-html-format-inlinetask-function 'ignore org-clock-out-hook '(org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer) ) -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/