Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevill...@yahoo.fr> writes: > Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> 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 ?
Brilliant, that did it! Very glad there was a semi-simple solution. Thanks, Eric
