GNU bug report logs - #18132
Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default? (dired-x.el)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:27:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 30.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #176 received at 18132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18132: Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default?
 (dired-x.el)
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 20:31:00 +0300

>> > What about optionally letting the system facilities present the menu
>> > of appropriate commands and let the user select from that menu?
>>
>> This is already implemented by the context menu in Dired.
>> I've checked that the contents of this context menu is exactly
>> the same as on the default OS file manager since both use XDG.
>
> Can you tell me how to try that starting from "emacs -Q"?

You can move to e.g. a PDF file in a Dired buffer and click the right button.
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