From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change of variable name in 21.4 Date: 04 Sep 2005 14:58:08 +1000 Message-ID: <87k6hx8m5b.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: <87k6hy37ew.fsf@wash.edu> <873bol91p3.fsf@wash.edu> Reply-To: timx@spamto.devnul.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125810078 8767 80.91.229.2 (4 Sep 2005 05:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 05:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 04 07:01:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBmcZ-0001EJ-Av for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 07:00:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBmgw-0000m2-6z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 01:05:18 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 88 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp11-179.lns1.syd7.internode.on.net Original-X-Trace: duster.adelaide.on.net 1125809889 59.167.11.179 (4 Sep 2005 14:28:09 +0950) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!news.xtra.co.nz!news-south.connect.com.au!duster.adelaide.on.net!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133655 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:29197 Archived-At: Baloff writes: > Neon Absentius 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 -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!