From: Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com>
Subject: Re: change of variable name in 21.4
Date: 04 Sep 2005 14:58:08 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k6hx8m5b.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 873bol91p3.fsf@wash.edu
Baloff <washdc@wash.edu> writes:
> Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:03:03PM +1000, Baloff wrote:
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I have been trying to find the name of the variable to change file
> > > association with an application. according to the book I am reading
> > > it is called Dired-view-command-alist. but not in emacs 21.4a-1 under
> > > Debian. does any one know what the name of the variable is.
> > > I tried C-h [a to z] for no avail.
> > >
> >
> > ,----[ C-h v dired-guess-shell-alist-user RET ]
> > | dired-guess-shell-alist-user's value is shown below.
> > |
> > | Documentation:
> > | User-defined alist of rules for suggested commands.
> > | These rules take precedence over the predefined rules in the variable
> > | `dired-guess-shell-alist-default' (to which they are prepended).
> > |
> > | Each element of this list looks like
> > |
> > | (REGEXP COMMAND...)
> > |
> > | where each COMMAND can either be a string or a lisp expression that evaluates
> > | to a string. If several COMMANDs are given, the first one will be the default
> > | and the rest will be added temporarily to the history and can be retrieved
> > | with M-x previous-history-element (M-p) .
> > |
> > | You can set this variable in your ~/.emacs. For example, to add rules for
> > | `.foo' and `.bar' files, write
> > |
> > | (setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
> > | (list (list "\\.foo\\'" "FOO-COMMAND");; fixed rule
> > | ;; possibly more rules ...
> > | (list "\\.bar\'";; rule with condition test
> > | '(if condition
> > | "BAR-COMMAND-1"
> > | "BAR-COMMAND-2"))))
> > |
> > | You can customize this variable.
> > |
> > | Defined in `dired-x'.
> > |
> > | Value:
> > | (("\\.pdf$" "xpdf * &")
> > | ("\\.pdf\\.gz$" "zxpdf * &")
> > | ("\\.dvi$" "xdvi * &")
> > | ("\\.ps$" "gv --spartan * &")
> > | ("\\.eps$" "gv --spartan * &")
> > | ("\\.ps\\.gz$" "gv --spartan * &")
> > | ("\\.rtf$" "ted * &")
> > | ("\\.jpeg$" "display * &")
> > | ("\\.jpg$" "display * &")
> > | ("\\.gif$" "display * &")
> > | ("\\.png$" "display * &"))
> > `----
>
>
> what emacs version are you using? I cannot find this variable in the
> package emacs 21.4a-1 packaged by Debian.
>
> >
> >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > > LocalWords: Dired alist
> >
> > --
> > Most precious among the relics remaining of Peter's skeleton in the
> > Vatican are 29 fragments of one of his skulls. (St. Peter's other
> > skull is preserved in a reliquary at the Cathedral of St. John
> > Lateran.)
> > -- Frank R. Zindler, "Of Bones and Boners"
I think it might be defined in dired-x, which you need to load
explicitly. It is certainly available with emacs 21.4 on Debian.
Tim
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-03 8:03 change of variable name in 21.4 Baloff
2005-09-03 8:15 ` Tim X
2005-09-03 12:03 ` Neon Absentius
[not found] ` <mailman.5837.1125750118.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-03 23:22 ` Baloff
2005-09-04 0:32 ` Neon Absentius
2005-09-04 4:58 ` Tim X [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.5869.1125795282.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-04 10:20 ` Baloff
2005-09-04 11:33 ` Neon Absentius
[not found] ` <mailman.5879.1125834869.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-05 9:10 ` Baloff
2005-09-05 13:33 ` Josh Staiger
2005-09-05 16:18 ` Neon Absentius
[not found] ` <mailman.5959.1125937411.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-05 19:40 ` Baloff
2005-09-05 19:27 ` Neon Absentius
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