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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to setup default program to launch directory?
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:02:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuheq0i9.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YWu1fyvRUgVBKJA4@protected.localdomain> (Jean Louis's message of "Sun, 17 Oct 2021 08:32:47 +0300")

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> I have made regexp to be: .
>
> and expression to be "(rcd-open-dir file)"
>
> Though I find it not logical to have to put Lisp expression in quotes.
>
> And I am trying to use this one.
>
> (defun rcd-open-dir (file)
>   "vlc")
>
> but it says "exited abnormally" and I cannot see error messages.
>
> Please show me example how you deal with it.

See the definition of `dired-guess-shell-alist-default' for some
examples involving expression type COMMANDs.

I can't tell what went wrong in your case without seeing the complete
code.  Maybe you just forgot to quote your expression so that it already
got eval'ed while loading?

Michael.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-18  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-13 21:10 How to setup default program to launch directory? Jean Louis
2021-10-13 22:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-14  0:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-14  0:30   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-17  5:21     ` Jean Louis
2021-10-17  5:32   ` Jean Louis
2021-10-17  9:52     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-17  9:59       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-17 14:57         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-17 15:19           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-17 18:58         ` Jean Louis
2021-10-17 18:56       ` Jean Louis
2021-10-18 16:36         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-18 17:14           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-18  7:02     ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]

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