bug#18132: Time for a smarter dired-guess-shell-alist-default? (dired-x.el)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 18132@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:09:07 +0200
> 
> >> +   ((eq system-type 'windows-nt)
> >> +    "open")
> >
> > If this is supposed to be a shell command that can be invoked via the
> > likes of call-process and start-process, then this should be "start",
> > not "open" (the latter doesn't exist as an executable command on
> > Windows).
> 
> Ok, will replace with "start", since only strings are used for commands.
> 
> Usually context menus on file managers include two items:
> 
>   "Open" that opens immediately
>   "Open With" with a list of commands
> 
> So "start" will be used for "Open With" if someone prefers this.
> Then a new command 'dired-do-open' bound to the "Open" menu item
> will hard-code 'w32-shell-execute' call with the "open" command.

SGTM, thanks.