On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 6:53 AM Alessandro Bertulli <alessandro.bertull...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I make Org open the PDF file of a resource, using an external > application? > > Let me explain: with the point on a org-cite link, pressing C-c C-o asks > me for the resource to open. Selecting the PDF file opens it with > DocView. I want instead to open it with an external PDF viewer > (specifically, Sioyek). But I can't make it do so! Changing > org-file-apps works only when I open "file:" type links. Apparently, > org-cite links don't read that value. > > So I'm asking, particularly to org-cite people: is there a way to do so? This is not an org-cite issue per se; it's a citar issue, since that package provides the org-cite "follow" functionality. You just need to set `citar-file-open-function` to your preferred function; say xdg-open. Note that this may change in the future; I'm contemplating making it an alist so you can set different ones for different extensions. Bruce