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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not
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To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:24:51AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
> On 19.9.2013, at 06:34, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >> On 18.9.2013, at 14:14, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ...
> >>> I think that is expected.  The bug is in the desktop specific open
> >>> commands.  Since you use none, generic open is used.  That is simply a
> >>> shell function, and does the right thing.
> >> 
> >> Is there a generic open command in Linux?  Why don't we use this instead?
> >> 
> > 
> > Not really. There is a shell function called open_generic inside of
> > xdg-open. I believe that's what Suvayu was referring to. But there is
> > no clean way of calling it, short of pulling it out of the xdg-open
> > script into a new script: as a general solution, that's hopeless.
> 
> All right.  Too bad.  Thank you.

Nick said it accurately.  It is part of the xdg-open script.

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Suvayu

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