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Re: [O] org-open-file with xdg-open not working?
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Nicolas Richard |
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Re: [O] org-open-file with xdg-open not working? |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:28:20 +0200 |
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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.