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From: Alexander Baier <alexander.baier@mailbox.org>
To: twiki <lap7619@yahoo.it>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Launch application with region as a parameter
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:01:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877g0djfoy.fsf@mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8c5818b-6df5-4ea1-9db4-25f61d1a66b9@googlegroups.com> (twiki's message of "Mon, 6 Oct 2014 08:33:10 -0700 (PDT)")

On 2014-10-06 17:33 twiki wrote:
> I've text-buffer and the cursor is here...
>
> ...
>
> bla bla bla c:\tmp\doc1.pdf  bla bla bla
>                       ^
> ...
>
> I want select this line and launch (with =C-c o=) Adobe Reader (or also)
> on c:\tmp\doc1.pdf

You could use (thing-at-point 'filename) to get the filename and then
start-process or maybe async-shell-command to start Adobe Reader.

HTH,
-- 
Alexander Baier



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-06 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-06 15:33 Launch application with region as a parameter twiki
2014-10-06 17:01 ` Alexander Baier [this message]
2014-10-06 23:35 ` Tak Kunihiro
     [not found] ` <mailman.10602.1412638553.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-07 15:54   ` twiki
2014-10-07 16:28     ` Alexander Baier
     [not found]     ` <mailman.10652.1412699323.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-07 16:54       ` twiki

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