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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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 18132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rrt <at> sc3d.org
Subject: bug#18132: Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default? (dired-x.el)
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:17:02 +0000

>
> What I want is more or less the exact behavior of xdg-open, but I want 
> to be able to check the actual command (e.g. "evince", not just 
> "xdg-open") before pressing RET.
>

xdg-mime query default $(xdg-mime query filetype FILE)

should return the name of one of the files /usr/share/applications, and 
you can check for the line starting with Exec in that file to see what 
command it launches.
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