On 21 April 2014 20:00, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

Hi Reuben,

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

> 1. I customize org-file-apps's system command to be "xdg-open %s",
> then customize the default command to be the system command.

Please share the value of `org-file-apps' (C-h v org-file-apps RET).

Value: ((auto-mode . emacs)
("\\.mm\\'" . default)
("\\.x?html?\\'" . default)
("\\.pdf\\'" . default)
(t . "xdg-open %s")
(system . "xdg-open %s"))

What I've found is that, since .pdf documents can be opened in Emacs
and since org-file-apps contains (auto-mode . emacs) as its first
element, then changing the system's value to xdg-open after that will
fail because (auto-mode . emacs) is applied first.

That's interesting, but I'm no less confused. With the value above, PDF files *are* opened with xdg-open.

Sure, the docstring needs a bit of simplification, thought.

That would be a good start: if I can understand what is supposed to happen, I have some chance to tell whether the actual behaviour is correct or not!

Thanks for your continued attention to this issue.

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