Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
The test app that I'm recoding to "get into" Lazarus has a couple of
right-button options: one of them treats highlighted text as a file name
and opens it using another instance of the same program, the other
treats it as a command and executes it. Under Win-32 the command can
have a .txt suffix which opens whatever editor is associated, an http:
scheme which opens the default browser and so on, it would be nice to be
able to duplicate this functionality even if it was limited to desktops
which conform to freedesktop.org.
xdg-open from freedesktop.org's Portland project does exactly this although as
yet it's not very widely bundled- I see it with Debian but not Slackware as
particular cases. I don't think this encapsulates an accessible .so, I'll see
if I can add it to helphtml once I'm more confident that I understand how
things work.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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