Dov I believe you would like to follow a link to svg file and have it open in one of the many external editors depending on whether the link is "visited" (read-only) or "opened" (edit). May be others could help you here.
What you need to begin with is a home-brewed elisp command to "view" or "edit" a file based on (say a prefix modifier). Read on. Hints below. > I'm not sure that emacs is the best tool to e.g. generate a template > png file of a given size and given background, or a svg file. I don't think there are any svg or png experts here in this list and I don't think any of us understand what you mean by template. Please provide an example. > I still don't feel that any of the proposed solutions solves the > file:foo.svg edit scenario, where foo.svg does not exist yet. We never proposed solutions. We only gave you hints. Your questions are better suited to help-gnu-emacs list. See URL: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/ > Also I would rather differentiate between opening a few for viewing > and opening a file for editing, as e.g. eog and inkview are good for > viewing, whereas gimp and inkscape are better for editing. You are the expert here and you have right to feel the way you feel - "unsatisifed" and "disappointed". Not many of us use eog, inkview, gimp or inkscape. At the minimum you should list how these apps open a given file - ie, the exact command line string to open a given file and then you can use `call-process' to launch the app. Jambunathan K. > > Regards, > Dov > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:32, Bastien <b...@altern.org> wrote: > > Hi Dov, > > Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> have a a new command org-edit-file that would: > >> > >> If the file does not exist, copy a skeleton file to the > filename > >> or generate the skeleton file by an emacs-function or by > calling > >> an external application. > > Such a functionality belongs to Emacs itself rather than > Org-mode. > Are you aware of existing templating facilities? > > http://emacs-template.sourceforge.net/ > > >> Call the configured editor application on the new file. > >> If invoked with Ctrl-u , allow the user to specify what > editor to > >> run on the file, e.g. inkscape, or killustrator on svg > files. > >> > >> Does something like this already exists? > > > > Start from C-h f org-open-file. > > Indeed! > > Best, > > -- > Bastien
