Re: bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Sep 2, 2013, at 10:54 PM, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 2.9.2013, at 18:54, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
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>> Carsten Dominik writes:
>>> OK, we now use xdg-open when available on a Linux system.
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>> The availability of xdg-open has nothing to do with whether or not you
>> are running Emacs on a Linux system.  Indeed, even on a system where it
>> is available, it won't do anything useful if you're running from a
>> console.  While I think it's a good default for someone using a desktop
>> that conforms to XDG standards, there should be a check if in fact Emacs
>> is running on such a desktop.
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> Hi Achim,
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> thanks for this input.  THis makes it more complicated.  Do you know how I would test this?  I do know about the variable window-system, but that will also return nil when Emacs is running in an xterm, even though xdg-open would be working in this case.

On the other hand, I guess mailcap would suffer from the same problems with console and other non-desktop terminals?

Maybe I should revert the revert and see what happens.

- Carsten

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> Since we are close to a release, maybe I should revert the commit for now and solve this with more time.
> 
> - Carsten
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>> 
>> Regards,
>> Achim.
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