From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Browsing dirs from Dired with graphical explorer
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:37:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skrsz4gc.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gb81ks$ssr$1@registered.motzarella.org
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Richard,
>> There's `xdg-open' which given a directory or file argument should
>> open it with the system's default application.
>
> Where is this defined? It does not exist on my debian system.
Here on Gentoo GNU/Linux it's in the xdg-utils package.
> Also would you know how to make "e" open the directory/file under the
> cursor? Your comments above indicate you thought this to be the case -
> it actually opens the current dir.
Ah, ok. I wasn't too sure what `dired-current-directory' returns.
Assuming you have xdg-open installed, something like this might do the
trick.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun dired-open-externally ()
"Open the current directory in your OS's file manager."
(interactive)
(start-process "dired-external" nil "xdg-open" (dired-get-file-for-visit)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Then the logic what application to use for opening the given file or
directory is inside xdg-open. On GNU/Linux it takes these informations
from /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap, AFAICT.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-22 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-22 8:31 Browsing dirs from Dired with graphical explorer Sébastien Vauban
2008-09-22 10:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-09-22 12:45 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.19685.1222087548.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-22 12:58 ` Sébastien Vauban
[not found] ` <mailman.19679.1222078001.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-22 12:05 ` Richard Riley
2008-09-22 13:06 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-09-22 13:37 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.19686.1222090826.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-22 15:47 ` Richard Riley
2008-09-22 19:15 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.19711.1222111115.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-22 22:07 ` Richard Riley
2008-09-23 7:58 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.19745.1222156700.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-23 11:58 ` Richard Riley
2008-09-23 12:00 ` Richard Riley
2008-09-24 17:28 ` Richard Riley
2008-09-22 12:55 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-09-22 13:13 ` Sébastien Vauban
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