Re: use of 'system in ox-odt.el

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:50:03AM +0200, Rasmus wrote:
> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Do you have a mailcap which says otherwise?  That's what I would suspect
> > given the doc string for org-file-apps and the default value of
> > org-file-apps-defaults-gnu on my system.
> 
> I have this in my mailcap
> 
>     application/msword;              antiword %s;
>     application/pdf; 		     evince %s;
>     application/vnd.lotus-organizer; emacsclient -ca '' %s;
>     application/zip                  file-roller %s;
> 
> Org does not open my html and odt files.  It does open pdf files.  This is
> using emacs -q.  I use Gnome 3.16 and xdg-open works as expected from the
> terminal.

There should also be a system-wide setting in /etc/mailcap.  On my
Fedora machine, the system-wide settings all look like this:

  text/html; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s ; copiousoutput

If yours doesn't, you could override it in ~/.mailcap.  If that doesn't
fix things, I'm out of ideas :-|.

GL,

> May contains speling mistake
> 

Funnny ;)

-- 
Suvayu

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