On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> wrote: > > > Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > When I export-and-open to odt, org doesn't open the resultant odt, even > > > though I get a message: > > > > > > Running xdg-open /home/matt/RLG231/RLG231Syllabus.odt...done > > > > > > org-open-file works fine on links in an org buffer, and an anser on the > > > following stackoverflow page suggests the issue is in ox-odt.el: > > > > With your change it open the odt file as a tar-mode file from Emacs -q. > > Without your change it doesn't open it at all. BTW: My Emacs also doesn't > > open html exports in Fx files when I use C-c C-e h-o. I never tried to > > debug it though... > > > > > Yeah, I just got that too -- I realized I hadn't been testing it in the > right environment, shoot. this modification worked for me (also form the > same forum): > > > (setcdr (assq 'system org-file-apps-defaults-gnu ) '(call-process > "xdg-open" nil 0 nil file)) > > Not sure why this should work when the default fails. Fx opens html > exports for me with C-c C-e h-o -- also not sure why that should work and > odt fail.
Do you have a mailcap which says otherwise? That's what I would suspect given the doc string for org-file-apps and the default value of org-file-apps-defaults-gnu on my system. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
