Perhaps this exists already, and if not, it should...

[Fernando Cassia]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 18:13, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well "open" is already taken :)
>
> Try "man open"

I'm happy to report that setting alias open=/usr/bin/xdg-open in
bashrc works wonders.
FC