Re: Updating dired-guess-shell-alist-default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Philip K." <philip@warpmail.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:28:43 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I presume the list of those candidate applications is short and known
> > in advance, so I thought perhaps on Posix systems where xdg-open is
> > not available we could try them one by one until we find one that's
> > installed?
> 
> This sounds good, but will it work on non-POSIX systems too, or in
> environments without any of the usual programmes?

I'm not sure I follow: what is "it" in "will it work" above?