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

[Philip K.]

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?

-- 
        Philip K.