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

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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?

I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.  Using `xdg-open` if it's installed
is already a significant improvement over what we have, I think, and
it brings no downside to those who don't have it.
And I haven't heard anyone without `xdg-open` ask for improvements in
this area.


        Stefan