Re: [Tracker] Can I use emacs to look at text files?

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2007/8/8, Don Rozenberg <don rozenberg gmail com>:
> Hi,
>
> When I select a text file from the tracker-search-tool GUI, it opens in
> KWrite. I am running kubuntu Feisty.  I would like to be able use emacs.
> Is there a configuration variable or some other mechanism to specify the
> viewer used?  Perhaps tracker should use the EDITOR environment variable
> when set.

If you have the xdg-utils package installed, tracker-search-tool will
use xdg-open.
xdg-open should use the default KDE viewer for text files when it is
run in a KDE session.
Use kcontrol:  KDE Components->File Assocations and change the default
viewer for the mimetypes you want.

HTH,
Michael

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