Hi Carsten and Giovanni,

I used (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.info\\'" . text-mode)) and it
works!

By the way, my system is GNU Linux.

Thanks!

Xin


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it
> wrote:

> Hi, Xin,
>
> Xin Shi <shixin111@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Emacs 23.1.1 and org mode 6.34b.
> here:
> GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-07-30 on SOFT-MJASON
> Org-mode version 6.34
> Windows XP PS3
>
> > a link say [[./http://link.org][test]], it will open the
> > http://link.org file in another buffer with orgmode.
> [...]
> > [[./http://test.info][test]], it will just hang there.
>
> + [[file:fit.log][fit]]  fit.log   is opened with notepad
> + [[file:../../../a.info][test]]  a.info is not opened:
>  the message error, in Italian, translates in:
>
> eval: ShellExecute failed: None application is associated to the
> specified file for this operation
>
> > It seems that org does not know how to deal with the .info suffix.
> Well, I suspect that org calls the program defined in the mailcap file.
>
> Please check there if you have a program associated to the ".info"
> extension
>
> cheers,
> Giovanni
>