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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> It all depends on the system you have (and the tools that are
>> installed), but yes, xpdf and xloadimage seem rather outdated (they
>> still exist but are much less popular than they once were).
> What is used in their stead?

Not sure what's standard.  I think it depends on lots of factors (such
as the main desktop environment in use).  In a Gnome desktop, I'd expect
`evince` to be used for PDF and for images ... not sure ... `display`
(from Imagemagick) or `eog`, maybe?

>> > Is there a way to know what it invokes for each file type?
>> Do you mean for use to know statistically what it uses most often,
>> or for Emacs to determine it at runtime?
> The former.

I guess we should look at what happens on a "stock" install of
Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora to see that.


        Stefan