---- On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 01:00:15 +0800 <emacs-orgmode-requ...@gnu.org> wrote ---- > Check your ~/.mailcap and/or /etc/mailcap file as well: there are indeed > many twisty passages through org-open-file, so you may end up calling > whatever the system has set up (correctly or not). > Nick
Aha, that was the answer. Apparently installing Okular adds this bit of silliness into /etc/mailcap: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text; okular %s --icon okular -caption Okular; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" ... which I find now has also been reported to Debian as a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857443 I still think it's insane, but at least now it's clear where the insanity lies: with Okular's inflated sense of self-importance :D But, what I still don't understand is, after adding an ODT entry to org-file-apps, why did org revert to querying mailcap...? Value: ((auto-mode . emacs) ("\\.mm\\'" . default) ("\\.x?html?\\'" . "/usr/bin/firefox %s") ("\\.odt\\'" . "/usr/bin/libreoffice6.0 %s") ("\\.pdf\\'" . "/usr/bin/okular %s")) Original value was ((auto-mode . emacs) ("\\.mm\\'" . default) ("\\.x?html?\\'" . default) ("\\.pdf\\'" . default)) ... this has exactly zero effect. Org ignores the odt line here, where I would expect an org-specific preference setting to override the system default. hjh