I'm not sure that emacs is the best tool to e.g. generate a template png
file of a given size and given background, or a svg file. I still don't feel
that any of the proposed solutions solves the file:foo.svg edit scenario,
where foo.svg does not exist yet. Also I would rather differentiate between
opening a few for viewing and opening a file for editing, as e.g. eog and
inkview are good for viewing, whereas gimp and inkscape are better for
editing.

Regards,
Dov

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:32, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

> Hi Dov,
>
> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> have a a new command org-edit-file that would:
> >>
> >>     If the file does not exist, copy a skeleton file to the filename
> >>     or generate the skeleton file by an emacs-function or by calling
> >>     an external application.
>
> Such a functionality belongs to Emacs itself rather than Org-mode.
> Are you aware of existing templating facilities?
>
>  http://emacs-template.sourceforge.net/
>
> >>     Call the configured editor application on the new file.
> >>     If invoked with Ctrl-u , allow the user to specify what editor to
> >>     run on the file, e.g. inkscape, or killustrator on svg files.
> >>
> >> Does something like this already exists?
> >
> > Start from C-h f org-open-file.
>
> Indeed!
>
> Best,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>