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From: "William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Wish list: Storing links and enabling MIME actions on files
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:51:36 -0500
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To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
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On 9/27/07, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Bernt Hansen <bernt@alumni.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> > I'd like to be able to link to the file easily for my org document and
> > have it invoke the appropriate viewer as defined in my MIME setup.
>
> Org uses the local mailcap setup to decide what application to open a
> file with.  Don't you have this on your computer?
>
> ~$ man mailcap
>

This is just for linux/unix, but things work fine for me on Mac OS X
too (e.g., file:foo.pdf links open in my default PDF viewer).

This should have been set up out of the box by one of the following
variables, depending on your system

`org-file-apps-defaults-macosx'
`org-file-apps-defaults-windowsnt'
`org-file-apps-defaults-gnu'


Cheers

Will

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