Re-introduce open alias

This is a combination of nohup and xdg-open to open files in a more
independent process.

Left to do: How to detach it from the shell so that it does not show up
in `jobs`?

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.bashrc b/.bashrc
index a27fc9a..0196d39 100644
--- a/.bashrc
+++ b/.bashrc
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ if command -v pacman > /dev/null  # ugly hack to detect Arch Linux
 then
 	alias t="todo.sh"
 fi
+function my_xdg_open() { nohup xdg-open "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1 & }
+alias open=my_xdg_open
 
 
 # extend PATH by custom scripts (location based on XDG)