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Re: [O] org-open-file with xdg-open not working?


From: Nicolas Richard
Subject: Re: [O] org-open-file with xdg-open not working?
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:28:20 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.90 (gnu/linux)

Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
> Presumably that's because the gnus version (eventually
> `mm-display-external') calls xdg-open with `call-process' and org does
> it with `start-process-shell-command'. The first is synchronous, the
> second asynchronous, and I do remember seeing something on one of these
> lists about difficulties with xdg-open because the process returns
> before the file actually opens, or *doesn't* return, or some similar
> thing the details of which I'm forgetting.
>
> Have other people run into this difficulty? How are you solving it?

I remember having problems which I was able to solve by changing the
value of process-connection-type to nil. Does that work for you ?

-- 
Nico.



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