From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-open-file with xdg-open not working?
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:28:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uqx4hor.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvl5ww1p.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:30:42 +0800")
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Presumably that's because the gnus version (eventually
> `mm-display-external') calls xdg-open with `call-process' and org does
> it with `start-process-shell-command'. The first is synchronous, the
> second asynchronous, and I do remember seeing something on one of these
> lists about difficulties with xdg-open because the process returns
> before the file actually opens, or *doesn't* return, or some similar
> thing the details of which I'm forgetting.
>
> Have other people run into this difficulty? How are you solving it?
I remember having problems which I was able to solve by changing the
value of process-connection-type to nil. Does that work for you ?
--
Nico.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-22 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-22 9:30 org-open-file with xdg-open not working? Eric Abrahamsen
2014-04-22 13:10 ` Nick Dokos
2014-04-22 13:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-04-22 13:28 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2014-04-22 14:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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