Various libraries have a snippet for opening files in external programs using xgd-open (Linux), open (OS X), and cmd.exe (Windows), which are frequently sources of issues which are hard to replicate and track down. I thought this could be centralized in a single package, so I wrote [image] …

What I use on Windows for that purpose is explorer, not cmd. Basically I do if (Sys.iswindows()) run(ignorestatus(`explorer $out`)) elseif (is_apple()) run(`open $(out)`) elseif (is_linux()) run(`xdg-open $(out)`) where out is the file name. … and this just made me realized that my pert to 0.7…

Hi Tamas, Works fine on OSX: julia> import DefaultApplication julia> DefaultApplication.test() ┌ Info: opening text file with the default application └ path = “/var/folders/fb/m164mwfn3v1btnrpmmyzpvqh0000gn/T/juliaXPmD7d.txt” ┌ Info: If the file was not opened, please copy the output and ope…

Worked in Windows 10. It opened notepad julia> import DefaultApplication julia> DefaultApplication.test() ┌ Info: opening text file with the default application └ path = "C:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\1\\jl_483D.tmp.txt" ┌ Info: If the file was not opened, please copy the output and…

Looks great, and does everything it should — on macOS. Out of interest, is the message: Process(`open /tmp/mdtable.md`, ProcessExited(0)) controllable via the DefaultApplication.open() function? I quite fancy not seeing it by default (I think it’s a new thing in v0.7…) Perhaps I’ll switch to us…

On Windows 10 julia> versioninfo() Julia Version 0.7.0-beta2.0 Commit b145832402* (2018-07-13 19:54 UTC) Platform Info: OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32) Opens a Notepad window

It is not a message, but a return value. Normally DefaultApplication.open would be called by a function, so you would not see it.

EDIT: my bad, it was the pasted expression that caused the error. The notepad opened okay. [image] Tamas_Papp: add GitHub - tpapp/DefaultApplication.jl: Julia package for opening a file with the default application determined by the OS. julia> import DefaultApplication julia> DefaultApplication…

I changed the default application for .txt files to be VS code: it worked beautifully. Thanks for this very useful package!

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Tamas_Papp July 21, 2018, 2:53pm 10

I would like to thank everyone who helped with testing. The package is now registered.

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