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

From: Leo Liu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:53:06 +0800

On 2013-04-04 22:34 +0800, Jambunathan K wrote:
> Leo suggests `dired-guess-shell-alist-user'.  COMMAND there is a sexp,
> btw. So the above variable is also evil.

dired-x provides a general way for doing these sorts of things including
those you try to achieve in your patches. I merely point you to the
entry. It has a few glitches such as using eval and maybe others but
nothing major.

Leo