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?
Yes I wondered this too. The current "otherwise" clause is an error message but it could be this `call-process' instead. -- Manuel Giraud
