Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> writes: > On 16/05/2022 18:57, Ihor Radchenko wrote: >> Craig STCR writes: >>> But with the new form in 9.5.3, /home/user/myscript is opened by >>> /bin/less, not emacs. I assume mailcap is not consulted. Which does >>> not work well. These behaviors are only for org. Outside of org, emacs >>> behaves correctly. >> >> mailcap does get consulted. What you are seeing happens because >> mailcap.el (built-in Emacs library) is only able to recognise mime-types >> by extension. So, your file is likely recognised as "nil" mimetype thus >> making Org mode fallback to default mailcap handler, which is /bin/less >> in your case. > > Sounds reasonable. However I just have tried a [[file:~/path/to/script]] > link running Org main HEAD and the file is opened in emacs (26.3) other > window.
The behaviour is dependent on the OS-level mailcap defaults. What does (mailcap-mime-info nil) return for you? Best, Ihor
