From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Simon Guest <simon.guest@tesujimath.org>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Choosing external app at runtime?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:24:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <306A72E1-BC28-430F-A0E5-A24C376E34E6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86sk6wx8m8.wl%simon.guest@tesujimath.org>
On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Simon Guest wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I follow a link, Org mode knows what application to use. Except
> that sometimes I want to override that choice.
>
> For example, I have a collection of PDF files. Mostly I want to open
> them in my statically configured PDF viewer, which is fine. But
> sometimes I want to open one in Xournal, say, to annotate it.
>
> My mail client Wanderlust will ask me in cases like this: if multiple
> mailcap entries match, I get to choose when opening the attachment.
>
> Any chance we could do a similar thing in Org mode?
Currently we do not have this. I can see that this could be both
useful and annoying, if you have to answer a prompt each time.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-18 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-16 5:35 Choosing external app at runtime? Simon Guest
2010-04-18 6:24 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-04-18 8:18 ` Simon Guest
2010-04-19 17:53 ` Ali Tofigh
2010-04-27 9:19 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-19 18:51 ` J. David Boyd
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