openfile(1)

✨ openfile(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the openfile page of the manual — literally the cutest little helper for opening a file with xdg-open in a external program 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

openfile — open a file with xdg-open in a external program 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

openfile file

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So openfile helps you open a file with xdg-open from mutt/neomutt in a external program, and the whole point is that it does it without weird side effects. no chaos, no drama, just vibes ✨

It's trying to be as simple and functional as possible so that you, the user, can associate a file extension with the program that will open it. lowkey the most chill way to do it 🫶

And here's the thing — you do not need to configure a specific program for each extension in mutt/neomutt, because that association comes from your environment settings, controlled by xdg-open. it's giving "let the system handle it" and honestly? iconic 👑

This program ends up not being exclusive to mutt/neomutt either — you can use it by command line in a terminal to open any file in its respective default program, just by using the command as described in the Synopsis field. main character energy fr fr 💫

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• mw(1)
• xdg-open(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

openfile was written by Luke Smith <luke@lukesmith.xyz>.

This manual page was written by Braulio Henrique Marques Souto <braulio@disroot.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). slay 🎀

okay that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💖 this was openfile-3.3.1, dated 31 October 2022 — mwah, go open some files 🦋✨