Subject: Re: bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc)

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:08:29 -0400

> Add support for opening files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc).
> This is something that I sorely missed or continue to miss.

For those people who find xdg-open not customizable enough, I think
open-file deserves an alist associating different commands to different
file kinds.
I guess in this sense I agree with Leo, that it should probably use
dired-guess-shell or something like that.

        Stefan