From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Ali Tofigh <alix.tofigh@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Choosing external app at runtime?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:19:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5509DEA9-A797-437D-A47E-7C576FB70DAD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w2mc8f5e1e41004191053ydccd7884u31c60e125e8c7f63@mail.gmail.com>
On Apr 19, 2010, at 7:53 PM, Ali Tofigh wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 04:18, Simon Guest
> <simon.guest@tesujimath.org> wrote:
>> At Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:24:41 +0200,
>> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Simon Guest wrote:
>>>> When I follow a link, Org mode knows what application to use.
>>>> Except
>>>> that sometimes I want to override that choice.
>>>
>>> Currently we do not have this. I can see that this could be both
>>> useful and annoying, if you have to answer a prompt each time.
>>
>> If the choice was only offered when a C-u prefix was given, it
>> wouldn't be annoying.
This is a reasonable approach - but I don't know how the Emacs mailcap
interface treats multiple matches. Who does?
Currently we use the C-u prefix to force opening a link in Emacs, but
we can find a solution here.
A patch implementing the ability to select an application in this way
would be seriously considered.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-27 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-16 5:35 Choosing external app at runtime? Simon Guest
2010-04-18 6:24 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-18 8:18 ` Simon Guest
2010-04-19 17:53 ` Ali Tofigh
2010-04-27 9:19 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-04-19 18:51 ` J. David Boyd
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