Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> writes: >> I have been digging more on this issue recently, and I have found that >> Carsten once attempted to tweak this default to use xdg-mime: > > Have you faced another issue with mailcap? Frankly speaking, I am unsure > what particular issues we are going to address (file type, Emacs and Org > versions, OS).
I am mostly going to address user confusion about mailcap - (1) a number of people are using DMs that rely on FreeDesktop and xdg-open; they get surprised when .mailcap is used - I've seen a number of questions in IRC/Matrix and on reddit related to how Org mode opens file links; (2) Emacs' mailcap does not implement the specification fully - only a subset of mailcap format is obeyed. So, I do not feel that Emacs' implementation of mailcap support is a good default for most users. > Did you intentionally mentioned "xdg-mime"? No. I meant xdg-open. > ... While xdg-open tries to find > suitable .desktop file to open a file, xdg-mime is more close to the > file(1) tool, but it consults signatures from shared-mime-info and > site&user config files. In addition, unlike file(1), it uses file > extensions to guess media type. That might be a good alternative to file indeed; although file is probably more widely installed. > An advantage of mailcap.el is that it should allow users have > Emacs-specific Emacs-wide configuration for viewers. Yes, but mailcap is not documented in Emacs manual. FYI, I first heard that .mailcap files are a thing when I encountered org-file-apps. > ... In principle it > should be more reliable when invoking emacs through xdg-open when Emacs > is configured as a handler for some media types. I doubt so. There are problems with mailcap.el and there might be problems with Emacs media type configuration. I prefer xdg. > Is it necessary to modify Org? Maybe an alternative is to add "xdg-open > %s" for */* to `mailcap-user-mime-data'. Do you mean changing the default value of `mailcap-mime-data'? >> I believe that xdg-open issue has been fixed by you in >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=5db61eb0f >> org.el: Avoid xdg-open silent failure > > I am still not really comfortable due to the strategy to start external > processes diverged from methods used in browse-url.el. Is it related to the problem at hand? > I have not had a look into xdg.el yet. AFAIK, xdg.el does not support xdg-open functionality. We cannot use it here. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
