[Portland] xdg-open and default application launching

[Martin Koller]

On Saturday 03 February 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> right now neither xdg-open and xdg-mime, to my
> knowledge anyways, can be directed to open the default terminal app, for
> instance. there is xdg-mail which does this for email, and one can feed
> about:/ or $HOME to xdg-open to force the desired results more or less for
> web and file management respectively, but that's not overly pretty.

What I am missing is a way to open an application to _edit_ a document, e.g. 
xdg-open runs a HTML page in a browser, but what do I use to find which app 
the user defined for editing it ?

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