From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Samuel Wales" Subject: feature request: more control over opening links Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:43:27 -0700 Message-ID: <20524da70811041143y1dad9c49g362248ad82000557@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KxRoN-0001ba-9r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:43:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KxRoL-0001aj-RH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:43:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42519 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KxRoL-0001aP-EK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:43:33 -0500 Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.150]:33489) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxRoL-0004pT-Fp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:43:33 -0500 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1171837eyg.24 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:43:28 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Summary: C-u C-u to force opening in an external application. Detail: My ideal settings for opening links would by default have org-open-at-point and org-open-at-point-global open everything in emacs except for anything that makes little sense to open in emacs, such as PDF (whether http:// or a local filename). This would include html pages on the web, which I want opened in emacs-w3m by default. Then, for cases where that does not work, C-u would open in emacs always. C-u C-u would open in external always. "External" here means the OS default (e.g. the "open" command in OS X). That way, when I know that I want something different, I can force it. (An alternate design is to reverse the sense of what org-file-apps says. But then you have to think about what the default is and decide whether to reverse it. This seems an unnecessary cognitive burden.) This seems not to be possible now. If I set most things to open in Emacs, I think that there is no way to open it in the OS default. Is that correct?