I previously wrote this solution: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/38345/open-an-external-sketch-drawing-application to make svg links open in inkscape, even if they don't already exist. I wanted to try using org-file-apps for this: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defun my-svg (path link) (message "path: %s - %s" path link)) (add-to-list 'org-file-apps '("\\.svg\\'" . my-svg)) #+END_SRC but i John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu