--- sampleconf/mimeview	2018-11-29 13:33:09.000000000 +0100
+++ sampleconf/mimeview.mac	2018-11-29 16:38:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 ## ##########################################
 # External viewers, launched by the recoll GUI when you click on a result
-# 'edit' link
+# 'Open' link - MAC version
+# On the MAC, we use "open" for everything...
 
 # Mime types which we should not uncompress if they are found gzipped or
 # bzipped because the native viewer knows how to handle. These would be
@@ -16,22 +17,17 @@
 #    search string
 #  - For pages of CHM and EPUB documents where we can choose to open the 
 #    parent document instead of a temporary html file.
-# Use xallexcepts- and xallexcepts+ in a user file to add or remove from
-# the default xallexcepts list
-
-xallexcepts = application/pdf application/postscript application/x-dvi \
- text/html|gnuinfo text/html|chm text/html|epub \
- application/x-fsdirectory|parentopen inode/directory|parentopen
-
+#xallexcepts = application/pdf application/postscript application/x-dvi \
+#            text/html|gnuinfo text/html|chm text/html|epub
 
 [view]
 # Pseudo entry used if the 'use desktop' preference is set in the GUI
-application/x-all = xdg-open %u
+application/x-all = open %f
 
 application/epub+zip = ebook-viewer %f
-# Open the parent epub document for epub parts instead of opening them as
-# html documents. This is almost always what we want.
-text/html|epub = ebook-viewer %F;ignoreipath=1
+# If you want to open the parent epub document for epub parts instead of
+# opening them as html documents:
+#text/html|epub = ebook-viewer %F;ignoreipath=1
 
 application/x-gnote = gnote %f
 
@@ -146,12 +142,11 @@
 application/zip = ark %f
 application/x-7z-compressed = ark %f
 
-application/x-awk = emacsclient --no-wait %f
-application/x-perl = emacsclient --no-wait %f
-text/x-perl = emacsclient --no-wait %f
-application/x-shellscript = emacsclient --no-wait %f
-text/x-shellscript = emacsclient --no-wait %f
-text/x-srt = emacsclient --no-wait %f
+application/x-awk = emacsclient  %f
+application/x-perl = emacsclient  %f
+text/x-perl = emacsclient  %f
+application/x-shellscript = emacsclient  %f
+text/x-shellscript = emacsclient  %f
 
 # Or firefox -remote "openFile(%u)"
 text/html = firefox %u
@@ -163,16 +158,15 @@
 
 application/x-webarchive = konqueror %f
 text/x-fictionbook = ebook-viewer %f
-application/x-tex = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-application/xml = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-text/xml = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-text/x-tex = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-text/plain = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-text/x-awk = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-text/x-c = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-text/x-lua = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-text/x-c+ = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-text/x-c++ = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
+application/x-tex = emacsclient  %f
+application/xml = emacsclient  %f
+text/xml = emacsclient  %f
+text/x-tex = emacsclient  %f
+text/plain = emacsclient  %f
+text/x-awk = emacsclient  %f
+text/x-c = emacsclient  %f
+text/x-c+ = emacsclient  %f
+text/x-c++ = emacsclient  %f
 text/x-csv = libreoffice %f
 text/x-html-sidux-man = konqueror %f
 text/x-html-aptosid-man = iceweasel %f
@@ -183,22 +177,21 @@
 # file at the right place
 text/html|chm = kchmviewer --url %i %F
 
-text/x-ini = emacsclient --no-wait %f
+text/x-ini = emacsclient %f
 text/x-man = xterm -u8 -e "groff -T ascii -man %f | more"
 text/x-python = idle %f
-text/x-gaim-log = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-text/x-purple-html-log = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
-text/x-purple-log = emacsclient --no-wait  %f
+text/x-gaim-log = emacsclient  %f
+text/x-purple-html-log = emacsclient  %f
+text/x-purple-log = emacsclient  %f
 
 # The video types will usually be handled by the desktop default, but they
 # need entries here to get an "Open" link
-video/3gpp = vlc %f
-video/mp2p = vlc %f
-video/mp2t = vlc %f
-video/mp4 = vlc %f
-video/mpeg = vlc %f
-video/quicktime = vlc %f
-video/x-matroska = vlc %f
-video/x-ms-asf = vlc %f
-video/x-msvideo = vlc %f
-
+video/3gpp = open %f
+video/mp2p = open %f
+video/mp2t = open %f
+video/mp4 = open %f
+video/mpeg = open %f
+video/quicktime = open %f
+video/x-matroska = open %f
+video/x-ms-asf = open %f
+video/x-msvideo = open %f
