xdg-open

A couple of years ago, support for xdg-open was added to browse-url.el. This has caused some problems in Fedora land, because xdg-open launches programs that run asynchronously. The upshot is that XEmacs thinks the helper program has exited, and removes the temporary file it created for viewing. Meanwhile, the viewer is finally initialized to the point where it can read the file ... which is no longer there. A few suggestions have been floated on how to deal with this. First, take xdg-open support back out again. Second, stop removing temporary files; as long as they are in /tmp, the tmpreaper will get them sooner or later (which, of course, is not feasible across all platforms supported by XEmacs). Third, ask upstream to make us a new tool or modify xdg-open to have a synchronous mode (which would require having synchronous tools to invoke). Any opinions? -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta