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: Re: place of .els Date: 11 May 2006 13:59:29 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: <87psilyzxa.fsf@localhost.localdomain> References: <87u07xzfqi.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 1147322474 22956 80.91.229.2 (11 May 2006 04:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 04:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 11 06:41:13 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 1Fe2z8-0003tH-NY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 06:41:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fe2z8-0002WI-9l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 00:41:10 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!statler.nntpserver.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.0.248 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1147319968 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 25247 203.134.67.67:2282 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139346 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:34969 Archived-At: "John Conrad" writes: > On 11 May 2006 08:17:57 +1000, Gary Wessle wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I want to use extview.el which is not supplied by debian/testing, so I > > downloaded it and now what? where do I place it to be safe? the > > load-path has lots and lots of locations, should I place it somewhere > > under /usr/local/...? > > > I have a lisp directory in my home directory where I store files like the > one you're talking about. I prefer this because I backup my home directory > more carefully than /usr/local/, and it's where I put my own homemade elisp > concoctions as well as those that don't come standard with emacs. > > Anyway, the point is that you're not limited to the locations that are > currently listed in your load-path variable. If you want to add a new > location to your load-path, add this line to your .emacs file: > > (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/directory") I did just that and placed in my .emacs the lines (require 'extview) (push '("\\.pdf$" . "xpdf %s") extview-application-associations) (push '("\\.html$" . "firefox %s") extview-application-associations) now when I C-x C-f a pdf file, it opens it with xpdf, but not a html file where I expected it to use firefox, any idea why?