Re: Launching of external applications

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From: tft
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:05

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Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> tft wrote:
> > In passing, is it possible to remove whatever files are opened via
> > this external spawning so that my attachments are not available for
> > others to know about ?  In other words, I get a PDF with a rather
> > descriptive filename, VM spawns the application for me to view the
> > PDF (thanks to those patches :-) yet when I'm done and I close the
> > application the PDF files (or any other attachment) are still there
> > in /tmp (is there a means to automatically delete them after I
> > close the application ?).
>
> The file should be deleted automatically when you quit viewing the
> message, quit visiting the folder, quit VM, or quit Emacs itself (see
> the call to vm-register-message-garbage-files in
> vm-mime-display-external-generic).

Since that doesn't happen often (my emacs/VM are on if the PC is on :-)
is there anyway (via a user option for instance or something) to
programatically remove the file being viewed after the external
application quits only ?

Thanks again.

 .tf.

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