Subject: bug#63911: Dired Open With

From: Björn Bidar <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 04:10:28 +0300

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Howard Melman <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:40:13 -0400
>> 
>> Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>> > Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:
>> >
>> >> After using this for a while I noticed that most of the time
>> >> mailcap suggestions are useless - they don't contain the same
>> >> items as in the context menus of a File Manager.  For example,
>> >> clicking the right mouse button on a ScreamTracker .stm file
>> >> opens a menu with Rhythmbox, and clicking on a ScreamTracker3
>> >> .s3m file opens a menu where the first item is Celluloid
>> >> and the second is Rhythmbox.
>> >>
>> >> So I implemented support for xdg commands that now displays exactly
>> >> the same menus in Emacs as in the File Manager, and with the same order.
>> >
>> > Agreed, it's better to use the xdg commands for this.
>> 
>> Will this work (or at least not break) on mac or windows or
>> other non-xgd systems?
>
> The MS-Windows port already has a function that's the equivalent of
> xdg-open: w32-shell-execute.  Patches to add this to the menu
> discussed here are welcome.

For macOS there's man 1 open which behaves very similar to xdg-open.
https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/open/