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,

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Bastien