/usr/bin/open now in use through the alternatives system.

[Holger Levsen]

Dear Charles,

thanks for driving this.

On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 08:15:45AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> I went ahead and uploaded to Sid mime-support version 3.68, which
> provides /usr/bin/open as a symbolic link to /usr/bin/run-mailcap using
> the alternatives system, at a priority of 30.  I welcome other
> alternatives.

yay!

> I also changed the behaviour of run-mailcap so that, when run as `open`,
> it will not replace the file with a temporary copy when its name needs
> to be escaped.  As a consequence, there is no redundancy between the
> `see` and `open` commands.

yay!

> At the moment the manual page of open is simply the one of run-mailcap,
> but I plan to provide a specific one.  Given the lack of answer to my
> previous email (quoted below), I have not implemented URL support in
> /usr/bin/run-mailcap.

yay!

> > Le Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 04:27:17AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> > > 
> > > May I ask you for extra information on how important is it to support
> > > URLs, and if anything beyond file:/, http:// and https:// would need
> > > to be supported ?
> > ...
> > > Also, can you give me a pointer to an explanation of what file:/ URLs
> > > are useful for ?  I read RFC 8089, but still did not get the point.
> > ...
> > > Since `eog http://example.com/image.png` will open the image,
> > > shouldn't an "open" program ask to the server what the media type of
> > > the URL is, and pass it to the default program able to handle it,
> > > instead of just visualising in the browser ?

I agree, an "open" program should ask to the server what the media type of the
URL is, and pass it to the default program able to handle it.
 
Thanks, again!


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