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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature request: more control over opening links
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:50:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EF9252DE-B1B3-498A-8807-56B000C1EFEA@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20524da70811041143y1dad9c49g362248ad82000557@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Samuel

   (you never sign your mails, so do not know if you prefer "Sam"...)

this is a reasonable request, and I have just implemented it.

Note, however, that it only applies to "file:" links, as
detailed in my previous message.

- Carsten

On Nov 4, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> Summary: C-u C-u to force opening in an external application.
>
> Detail:
>
> My ideal settings for opening links would by default have
> org-open-at-point and org-open-at-point-global open
> everything in emacs except for anything that makes little
> sense to open in emacs, such as PDF (whether http:// or a
> local filename).  This would include html pages on the web,
> which I want opened in emacs-w3m by default.
>
> Then, for cases where that does not work, C-u would open in
> emacs always.  C-u C-u would open in external always.
> "External" here means the OS default (e.g. the "open"
> command in OS X).
>
> That way, when I know that I want something different, I can
> force it.  (An alternate design is to reverse the sense of
> what org-file-apps says.  But then you have to think about
> what the default is and decide whether to reverse it.  This
> seems an unnecessary cognitive burden.)
>
> This seems not to be possible now.  If I set most things to
> open in Emacs, I think that there is no way to open it in
> the OS default.  Is that correct?
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-05  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-04 19:43 feature request: more control over opening links Samuel Wales
2008-11-04 19:56 ` Ross Patterson
2008-11-05  9:50 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-11-09 21:55   ` Samuel Wales

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