From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ross Patterson Subject: Re: feature request: more control over opening links Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:56:55 -0800 Message-ID: <87hc6nw9h4.fsf@transitory.lefae.org> References: <20524da70811041143y1dad9c49g362248ad82000557@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KxS1Q-0004DU-Ov for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:57:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KxS1P-0004Bn-RG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:57:04 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56111 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KxS1P-0004BH-Ha for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:57:03 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:36270 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxS1P-00072T-Mb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:57:03 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KxS1M-0007ww-Hc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:57:00 +0000 Received: from rpatterson.net ([69.12.174.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:57:00 +0000 Received: from me by rpatterson.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:57:00 +0000 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org "Samuel Wales" writes: > Summary: C-u C-u to force opening in an external application. > > Detail: > > My ideal settings for opening links would by default have > org-open-at-point and org-open-at-point-global open > everything in emacs except for anything that makes little > sense to open in emacs, such as PDF (whether http:// or a > local filename). This would include html pages on the web, > which I want opened in emacs-w3m by default. > > Then, for cases where that does not work, C-u would open in > emacs always. C-u C-u would open in external always. > "External" here means the OS default (e.g. the "open" > command in OS X). > > That way, when I know that I want something different, I can > force it. (An alternate design is to reverse the sense of > what org-file-apps says. But then you have to think about > what the default is and decide whether to reverse it. This > seems an unnecessary cognitive burden.) > > This seems not to be possible now. If I set most things to > open in Emacs, I think that there is no way to open it in > the OS default. Is that correct? +1 - I like this idea a lot. Ross