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Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default? (dired-x.el)

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Message #11 received at 18132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 18132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18132: Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default?
 (dired-x.el)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 02:49:31 +0300

> These days, there are mature programs for launching an arbitrary file with
> an appropriate viewer: run-mailcap (which is mature to the point of
> obsolescence) and

run-mailcap is fully supported by shell-command and async-shell-command where
the list of available commands can be accessed using M-n in its minibuffer.

> xdg-open on GNU systems; open on Mac OS X; start on MS Windows).

xdg-open is a single command that is too easy to add to the top of this list.

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