From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired - open files external Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 20:49:41 +0800 Message-ID: <87siodzvve.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87fvke86q8.fsf@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399985233 31228 80.91.229.3 (13 May 2014 12:47:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 12:47:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 13 14:47:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WkC6s-0002xJ-Ak for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 14:47:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkC6s-0006Ov-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 08:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkC6X-0006OG-0V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 08:46:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkC6R-00047W-3Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 08:46:44 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkC6Q-00047K-SD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 08:46:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WkC6J-00021W-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 14:46:31 +0200 Original-Received: from 221.218.161.205 ([221.218.161.205]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 14:46:31 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 221.218.161.205 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 14:46:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.218.161.205 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JwOPeKXg8277zvEfxy7GNnmKtSQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97624 Archived-At: Martin writes: > Hi there, > > Dired works fine here, but I cannot figure out how to open the filex > external. > > Special docx and pdf should be opened external, pdf not allways but > mostly. How can I do that? (For docx - it does not make much sense for > me to see the files inside, but open it with libreoffice would be quite > good.) > > Thanks, > Martin I've found external-file programs to be one of the more gruesome aspects of Emacs, with solutions ranging from mailcap to xdg-open. Multiple packages demand their individual solutions. I have opted for the scorched-earth policy, and tried to route absolutely everything non-emacs through xdg-open. Then, at the very least, I have one point of control. For dired, that looks like this: (defun dired-open (&optional file-list) (interactive (list (dired-get-marked-files t current-prefix-arg))) (apply 'call-process "xdg-open" nil 0 nil file-list)) ;;'e' usually does 'dired-find-file, same as RET, rebinding it here (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook '(lambda () (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "e") 'dired-open))) (setq image-dired-external-viewer "/usr/bin/xdg-open") Others will hopefully provide less extreme solutions! Eric This reminds me that one of my tasks for the next couple of days is making org-open-file also a slave to xdg-open.