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really new to spacemacs, I want to open a link (which is a file stored somewhere on my computer and the full path is used) inserted into org-mode file of spacemacs with the default application of such file, say excel, rather than within spacemacs. I searched up online, it seems like below is the solution: (setq org-file-apps '("\\.xlsx\\'" . "excel %s")),but this throw out the error :

wrong type argument: listp "excel $s".

See these links for your reference and any helpful suggestion is deeply appreciated.

I'm on the latest develop branch of spacsmacs, if this is of any use.

link_1, link_2, link_3

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The documentation says that org-file-apps should be a list of cons cells but you have supplied a single cell instead. Solution: one more set of parens:

(setq org-file-apps '(("\\.xlsx\\'" . "excel %s")))

You now have a list containing a single cons cell and org-file-apps should be happy.

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  • In the buffer, the linked .xlsx file still opened in another buffer, but in exported html, it will download the linked file.
    – Jason Goal
    Commented Jan 24, 2020 at 0:16

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