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