From: "William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Wish list: Storing links and enabling MIME actions on files
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:51:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41c818190709271051k46b19d96x5246fc8566c87a4b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lkasxbqt.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
On 9/27/07, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Bernt Hansen <bernt@alumni.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> > I'd like to be able to link to the file easily for my org document and
> > have it invoke the appropriate viewer as defined in my MIME setup.
>
> Org uses the local mailcap setup to decide what application to open a
> file with. Don't you have this on your computer?
>
> ~$ man mailcap
>
This is just for linux/unix, but things work fine for me on Mac OS X
too (e.g., file:foo.pdf links open in my default PDF viewer).
This should have been set up out of the box by one of the following
variables, depending on your system
`org-file-apps-defaults-macosx'
`org-file-apps-defaults-windowsnt'
`org-file-apps-defaults-gnu'
Cheers
Will
--
Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-27 16:43 Wish list: Storing links and enabling MIME actions on files Bernt Hansen
2007-09-27 17:24 ` Bastien
2007-09-27 17:51 ` William Henney [this message]
2007-09-27 18:02 ` Bastien
2007-09-27 18:15 ` William Henney
2007-09-27 19:35 ` Bastien
2007-09-27 18:44 ` Bernt Hansen
2007-09-27 22:50 ` Bastien
2007-09-27 23:08 ` Bernt Hansen
2007-09-27 18:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-27 18:38 ` Bernt Hansen
2007-09-27 19:08 ` Bernt Hansen
2007-09-27 19:39 ` Bastien
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