Done, in the latest base library and zips.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 7:15 AM chris burke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Agreed, thanks. I will make the change.
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 3:26 AM ethiejiesa via Source <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In the spirit of making plot and viewmat Just Work TM, would it make
>> sense to
>> add 'xdg-open' as the initial option in 'dfltpdfreader' and
>> 'dfltimageviewer'?
>> This mirrors the usage of 'x-www-browser' in 'dfltbrowser'.
>>
>> For the sake of clarity, 'xdg-open' is a part of the xdg-utils[0] package
>> typically installed on desktop linux systems. It is a utility designed to
>> open
>> a given file or URL using the user's preferred application.
>>
>> Concretely, I am thinking something like this patch relative to 9.1.20:
>>
>>     --- stdlib.ijs      2020-01-28 20:14:27.504002311 +0900
>>     +++ stdlib.ijs      2020-01-28 20:23:11.676843185 +0900
>>     @@ -2032,6 +2032,9 @@
>>      case. 'Darwin' do. 'open'
>>      case. do.
>>        try.
>>     +    2!:0'which xdg-open 2>/dev/null'
>>     +    'xdg-open' return. catch. end.
>>     +  try.
>>          2!:0'which evince 2>/dev/null'
>>          'evince' return. catch. end.
>>        try.
>>     @@ -2315,6 +2318,9 @@
>>      case. 'Darwin' do. 'open'
>>      case. do.
>>        try.
>>     +    2!:0'which xdg-open 2>/dev/null'
>>     +    'xdg-open' return. catch. end.
>>     +  try.
>>          2!:0'which eog 2>/dev/null'
>>          'eog' return. catch. end.
>>        '' return.
>>
>> [0]:https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-utils/
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