Re: [PLUG] KDE Question

[Henry Umansky <henry@humansky.com>]

kedit foo.txt &

Henry Umansky
henry@humansky.com
http://www.humansky.com



Kyle R. Burton wrote:

> Quick KDE question.
>
> In win* I can, at a console, type 'start foo.txt' and it performs a 
> ShellExec, which looks for an associated application to handle the file.
>
> In osx I can use 'open foo.txt' to launch the default editor 
> registered for that particular file type.
>
> This hooks into the same handler that is invoked when you click (or 
> double click) on a file in the file system explorer (windows explorer, 
> or the mac finder, or Konqueror).
>
> Is there some way to reach the same part of the KDE system, but from a 
> terminal?  Just running 'konqueror foo.txt &' does bring up a viewer 
> application, but it does not simulate a click on the file name (which 
> brings up a text editor for example).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kyle
>
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