Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> writes: > Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > >> I'm trying to open files externally (via org-attach), with a mailcap >> that funnels most everything to xdg-open. I notice that doing this with >> org-open-file gives me: >> >> Running xdg-open /home/me/path/to/file.PDF...done >> >> But no actual open file. >> >> Doing a similar thing in gnus, with the `gnus-mime-view-part-externally' >> command, gives me a similar message about xdg-open, but then the file >> actually opens. >> >> 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? > > Yes. > >> How are you solving it? > > By not using xdg-open: I tend to add explicit entries in my .mailcap instead.
Well pooh... not the answer I was hoping for!
