Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> writes: > Alan Wehmann <alan.wehm...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Thanks for your reply. In my personal case I've modified "org-open-file" to >> throw an error for a non-existing file. In my case, clearly Emacs is not >> happy with a non-existing file--at least if it is a PDF file meant to be >> viewed by docview. Option 1 could have "org-docview-open" throw an error >> for a non-existing file, I suppose. You describe option 2 as risking >> existing configs. I am uninformed on such an issue. I only use Org from >> within Emacs. If a future problem occurs because I modified >> "org-open-file", I'll deal with it when it occurs. > > I thought more about this and I do not think that modifying > org-open-file is a good idea. The current behaviour could be useful for > people who would like to auto-create, say, .org/.txt files just by > typing a link and opening it. Even .svg files could be created like > this. > > So, I propose to update ol-docview instead. See the attached patch.
Applied onto main via c231e93b5. Best, Ihor
