From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Configuring external viewer for document types in Dired
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:22:05 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqg81636.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c81c3586-a23c-4fdf-8ec2-6663c3055d80@w41g2000yqb.googlegroups.com
Thor376 <thor376@gmail.com> writes:
> When I invoke Dired, many files in the list can be read by Emacs.
> That's just fine. But occasionally I see a PDF file in Dired. Is there
> some possibility to configure an external viewer to launch when I
> press Enter on a PDF file in Dired?
>
> My system is Cygwin for Microsoft Windows XP. Emacs is installed from
> the Cygwin repository. I use Emacs version 21.2.1.
That is a very old version of emacs. Current version is 23 and has
built-in support for viewing PDF files via doc-view mode.
Tim
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tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-27 16:12 Configuring external viewer for document types in Dired Thor376
2009-08-28 12:22 ` Tim X [this message]
2009-08-28 13:08 ` Wang Lei
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