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 wrote: > Hi, Xin, > > Xin Shi 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 >