Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes:
>> Cc: 73...@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:48:12 +0200
>> From: Manuel Giraud via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> > And is xdg-open reliably available on BSD systems, so that we don't
>> > generate an opaque error message if that is not the case?
>>
>> I think it would work whether xdg-open is install or not because
>> `shell-command-guess-open' is defined by testing the presence of
>> xdg-open. So if xdg-open is not installed, `command' in the code above
>> will be nil and nothing will happen.
>
> Then why do we need to condition this by system-type at all?
Juri implemented the command, so perhaps he could explain. I don't
understand why one doesn't just use `shell-command-guess-open' directly?
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