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: unable to create/find a .cpp file (ed.2) Date: 03 Aug 2006 02:13:56 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: <87u04vuncr.fsf@localhost.localdomain> References: <874px1pk4l.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 1154536843 839 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2006 16:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 02 18:40:42 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 1G8Jlj-0006LG-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8Jli-0008AA-KQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:40:26 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.27.43.216 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1154535184 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 17546 203.134.67.67:2458 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.waia.asn.au!202.72.130.18.MISMATCH!quokka.wn.com.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140791 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:36418 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers writes: > Gary Wessle wrote: > > Hi > > after my first post, I here provide more info in-order to find a fix. > > thank you for giving me your time to fix my problems. > > ################ from old post ################ > > ctl-xf which does find/create a file then I type test.cpp then I get this in > > the echo area > > **************************************************************** > > File is opened with an external viewer. See buffer *extview log* for status messages. > > **************************************************************** > > in *extview log* I have > > **************************************************************** > > Opening file ~/test.cpp with handler: more '%s' > > /home/fred/test.cpp: No such file or directory > > Process extview-process finished > > **************************************************************** > > ################ more info ################ > > C-h v extview-application-associations' > > (("\\.py$") > > ("\\.pdf$" . "xpdf %s")) > > C-h f mailcap-parse-mimetypes function does not have any ".cpp" > > entry: > > Yes, but did you check each of the files listed in that function's > doc string? That is where the ".cpp" -> "more '%s'" association must > be coming from since it's not in extview-application-associations. sorry, but I don't get it, "function's doc string" C-h f mailcap-parse-mimetypes output did not give any file names either. > > But I think you could override the mailcap/mimetypes association like > this: > > (setq extview-application-associations > (cons '("\\.cpp\\'" . nil) extview-application-associations)) > yes, that fixed it, thank you.