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Dired-open notes

These are some notes from my experience using dired-open.

Install

Installation under Emacs 26 using use-package

(use-package dired-open :init (require 'dired-open) :defer 5)

After loading this then you can test

Open up a directory and move over a file, type in M-x dired-open-xdg and it should open it in your default GUI application.

Customize

• M-x customize
• Type in 'dired-open' and search
• Within Dired Open Extensions click INS to insert a new one.
• Example Extension: png Program: gthumb

Here has to be a new line per extension

Open using your default GUI application

• Go to customize
• Type in 'dired-open' and search
• Within Dired Open Functions click INS to insert a new one at the end
• Overwrite 'Ignore' to 'dired-open-xdg'

Now dired-open should open files which are not listed in your open extensions list the the default application.