Open files with application

Yury V. Zaytsev yury at shurup.com
Sun Jun 5 20:05:21 UTC 2011


Hi!

Please keep the traffic on the list.

On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 21:49 +0300, Sergiy Kukunin wrote:
> Sorry, I was wrong in my message. Yes, it is question, can I use mc to
> determine application for file? 

No, that's not possible, and we wouldn't want to make it possible for
the reasons described above.

> I know it has problems but nothing is ideal. xdg-open has more
> problems because it opens all files in browser ( i know, i can use
> gvfs-open or exo-open, but it is parts of DE and I don't want to
> install it ). 

You can use run-mailcap instead.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev





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