} "xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application" } explicitly mentioning "a file or a url" and then it says } "If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred } application for files of that type." These words would indicate that it is } going to open a file by doing something to the file, not by doing the } extraneous act of starting a web browser.
No. "open a file" is just <US/WaltDisney folksie slang> for <allow you to look inside the file, to see the original creator's contents>. This inevitably requires the use of some utility/can-opener. A possible can-opener/nut-cracker MAY be a web-browser. And, yes: the monster browser is a curse, based on the one-stop shopping concept. }But now there is a string of really weird dependencies, it seems. Yes. They use the same methods as narcotics-peddlars: making you dependant on their product. In previous decades, email was 20-lines-envelope plus 20-lines-contents. Now it's 80-lines-envelope plus two-lines-kiddie-twitter. Perhaps Rpi is a revolution against this absurd trend? === PS. has anyone got a mc-based solution for improving gmail? http-based: `lynx gmail.com` wants repeated <confirmation> `links gmail.com`is better, receiving ONE mail at a time is absurd. mutt-based: pop?imap is also dud and needs `sendmail`. How is it possible that this all worked perfectly, in the 90's !! _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
