From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Choosing external app at runtime? Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:19:27 +0200 Message-ID: <5509DEA9-A797-437D-A47E-7C576FB70DAD@gmail.com> References: <86sk6wx8m8.wl%simon.guest@tesujimath.org> <306A72E1-BC28-430F-A0E5-A24C376E34E6@gmail.com> <86zl1118ea.wl%simon.guest@tesujimath.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O6gx7-0006LJ-Iw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:19:37 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43410 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6gx2-0006Ha-VR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:19:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6gx1-0002Xd-Gh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:19:32 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f214.google.com ([209.85.219.214]:46832) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6gx1-0002XM-Bf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:19:31 -0400 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so4728891ewy.32 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:19:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ali Tofigh Cc: Org Mode On Apr 19, 2010, at 7:53 PM, Ali Tofigh wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 04:18, Simon Guest > 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