Subject: bug#18132: Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default? (dired-x.el)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 09:02:43 +0300

> From: Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 21:53:17 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
>  I also want to be able to override xdg-open with customizations inside
>  Emacs.
> 
> This just adds complexity to the system.

Yes, but the added complexity should be small, and I think we cannot
do without that: tools like xdg-open will never be able to satisfy all
the needs of Emacs users, because Emacs is not just a file manager
capable of starting applications.