From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell - win32 - executable files Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 23:02:53 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ptqtn0c2.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <3E29A4AD.2080101@XXnetscape.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042956281 3846 80.91.224.249 (19 Jan 2003 06:04:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 06:04:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18a8ZT-0000zt-00 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:04:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18a8a9-0007j7-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 01:05:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3c4iwmgu+v1YL02c10CXN8GkfdQ= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 18 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109168 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5692 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5692 >>>>> On Sat Jan 18, matt writes: > This may be something that I need to do in the Windows registry, > but... How can I specify which files are executable. On a windows > system there are the normal ones like .exe, .bat, .com, etc. What I > want to do is to tell emacs that another type of file is > executable, so that I can just type the filename and have it > execute like any other command. Specifically, a perl script. I want > to be able to execute say "myscript.pl" without having to type: > perl path_to_script/myscript.pl. I have the file association set in > explorer, and the path to the script is in my path. I can execute > it in cmd.exe by typing myscript.pl, but not in eshell. > Any ideas? Configure the variable `eshell-binary-suffixes'. John