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hyperbole does not detect I’m on a mac

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From: Mats Lidell <matsl <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Weiner <rswgnu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt <at> polytechnique.org>, hyperbole-users <at> gnu.org, 66840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66840: hyperbole does not detect I’m on a mac
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:49:02 +0100

> Robert Weiner writes:
> Hi Alan:
>
> Thanks for letting us know about this alternative window system name.  We’ll add it.  And glad to see you are solving your iwn problems with implicit buttons.
>
> Feel free ti describe more of what you do with Hyperbole as you get further into it or if you are experienced, any time you are ready.
>
> -- Bob
>
> > On Oct 30, 2023, at 5:32 PM, Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt <at> polytechnique.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Mats,
> > 
> > On 2023-10-30 21:07, Mats Lidell <mats.lidell <at> lidells.se> writes:
> > 
> >>> When I press M-ret on a path to a pdf, hyperbole offers to run "setsid
> >>> -w xdg-open", which I don’t have installed as I’m on a mac. Looking at
> >>> hpath:get-external-display-alist, I see that my window system, which is
> >>> "mac", is not in the first conditional. Is this a bug?
> >> 
> >> Yes I think so. It seems Hyperbole does not identify that you are on a Mac and
> >> falls back to settings used when running under X-windows.
> >> 
> >> Can you share what value `window-system' has on your machine? (Use Hyperbole
> >> key series: {C-hv window-system RET})
> > 
> > My message was not clear, the window-system value is actually "mac"
> > (without the quotes). It’s this variant of emacs
> > https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/master/, installed through
> > homebrew using https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport.
> > 
> >>> Is there a way to configure M-ret to open the file in dired instead?
> >> 
> >> Yes there is. You can customize the variable `hpath:native-image-suffixes' and
> >> add the suffix of the file type that you want to display naively in Emacs. In
> >> your case "pdf". The name of the variable is not the best and should probably
> >> be updated now when Emacs supports more native document types than images.
> > 
> > Thank you for the suggestion, but it’s not exactly what I want. In this
> > case, it opens the file itself in emacs (using docview, or in my case
> > pdftools). What I would like is a way to open the enclosing folder in
> > dired with the file selected. But I now know more of hyperbole do it
> > myself:
> > <dired-jump nil "~/path/to/file.pdf">
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Alan
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bug-hyperbole mailing list
> > Bug-hyperbole <at> gnu.org
> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hyperbole

Duplicate with bug#66838

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