From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Wessle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: unable to create/find a .cpp file (ed.2) Date: 29 Jul 2006 06:08:58 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: <874px1pk4l.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154119245 29813 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2006 20:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:40:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 28 22:40:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6Z8M-00075J-Bm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:40:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6Z8L-0002tm-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:40:33 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.255.12 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1154117332 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 17549 203.134.67.67:3224 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.uwa.edu.au!nntp.waia.asn.au!202.72.130.18.MISMATCH!quokka.wn.com.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140720 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36345 Archived-At: Hi after my first post, I here provide more info in-order to find a fix. thank you for giving me your time to fix my problems. ################ from old post ################ ctl-xf which does find/create a file then I type test.cpp then I get this in the echo area **************************************************************** File is opened with an external viewer. See buffer *extview log* for status messages. **************************************************************** in *extview log* I have **************************************************************** Opening file ~/test.cpp with handler: more '%s' /home/fred/test.cpp: No such file or directory Process extview-process finished **************************************************************** ################ more info ################ C-h v extview-application-associations' (("\\.py$") ("\\.pdf$" . "xpdf %s")) C-h f mailcap-parse-mimetypes function does not have any ".cpp" entry: $emacs -q --no-site-file (the problem goes away) $emacs -q (the problem DOES NOT returns)