Re: Make hpath:external-display-alist-x customizable

[Robert Weiner]

Good ideas.  A-- Bob

> On Sep 29, 2020, at 2:36 AM, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> 
> The variable hpath:external-display-alist-x should be made
> customizable, same for other operating systems.
> 
> (("\\.e?ps$" . "ghostview") ("\\.dvi$" . "xdvi") 
> ("\\.\\(doc[mx]?\\|od[st]\\|ppsx?\\|ppt[mx]?\\|xls[mx]?\\)$" . "openoffice") 
> ("\\.pdf$" "xpdf" "acroread") ("\\.ps\\.g?[zZ]$" . "zcat %s | ghostview -") 
> ("\\.\\(gif\\|tiff?\\|xpm\\|xbm\\|xwd\\|pm\\|pbm\\|jpe?g\\)" . "xv") 
> ("\\.ra?s$" . "snapshot -l"))
> 
> xv is shareware and thus not free software, I don't think it should be
> hard coded in GNU Hyperbole, if I am not mistaken GNU Hyperbole is
> part of GNU system, and then it should not point to non-free
> software. The image viewer I am using is sxiv, very handy and free
> software. There are many others.
> 
> There are some new readers and software, often libreoffice is used
> rather than openoffice, evince and mupdf and other PDF readers are
> today more often used than xpdf or acroread which I do not even have
> in my free operating system any more.
> 
> Customization would be good for this variable.
> 
> I use:  Editor:      GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 15, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X 
> toolkit, cairo version 1.14.8, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> 
>        Hyperbole:   7.1.2
>        Sys Type:    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>        OS Type:     gnu/linux
>        Window Sys:  x
>        News Reader: Gnus v5.13
>