Thanks Alex. I don't think I asked my question well.
You suggested: <a href="/home/joe/data/SOMEFILE.txt">notes</a> That works the same as: <a href=file:/home/joe/data/SOMEFILE.txt>notes</a> (Which I had tried). Both open the file, to read-only, but what I want to do is open the file in the text editor 'kwrite'. When I do: kwrite SOMEFILE.txt <E> from the command line, the file opens in the editor. My question might be better ask this way: How can I do that from a menu. Is there a syntax something like: exec kwrite SOMEFILE.txt that can be used to within an html menu? ----------------- > The reason you're getting that prompt is because that syntax is saying to > open an ".odt" file and you have not yet told Firefox how to handle the > ".odt" extension. You can do that in your browser settings. If you were > to > change the syntax to have ".txt" the browser would just display it > online, > with no prompt. > > I'm not familiar with the "=file:" part, and suspect that might be > specific > to FF. Try this and let me know if it works for you? > > <a href="/home/joe/data/SOMEFILE.txt">notes</a> > > Thanks, > Alex. > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+ > > > On Dec 30, 2017 13:01, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have an html menu with a list of tasks that open > various documents both online and on my local system. > Most of the tasks in the list open html documents, > but one of the tasks looks like this: > > <a href=file:/home/joe/data/notes.odt>notes</a> > > When I click on "notes" (using Firefox) a dialog pops up > that reads: "What should Firefox do with this file?" > (*) Open with LibreOffice Writer (default) > ( ) Save File > [ ] do this automatically for files like this. > > Two questions: > (1) What actions and what syntax could I use to open a plain text > document with 'kwrite' (the text editor that I use most often)? > > (2) How can I get this to work with the Chrome browser, also? > (It only works with Firefox now.) > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
