Newbie: opening files form the command line

[oleksandr korneta]

on 10/04/2005 12:45 PM Dotan Cohen wrote:

>>Not sure that's really what he needs. I'd rather suggest doing
>>
>>gnome-open phonenumbers.xls
>>
>>(For the actual file open.) No manpage for this tool, I think, but it's
>>probably described somewhere in the help system.

> Thanks, this is almost exactly what I am looking for. However, it uses
> the gnome defaults. 
well, I'm not sure which defaults it is using, because when I do

$gnome-open foo.txt

emacs pops up, instead of gedit or whatever is in gnome by default.
Is there any way to manage those preferences?




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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta