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From: Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@bornier.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: viewing MS powerpoint files from dired
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:36:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrsyxxwr.fsf@boreebo.bornier.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b51cb54f-abc6-4870-8d81-1b6bff01e8ba@u26g2000yqu.googlegroups.com

Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com> wrote :

| Hello,
>
| How can I teach dired to launch powerpoint on files with extension ppt
| (that is on MS Windows)?
>
| (Writing some elisp is OK).
>
| You can `blame' the DocView package for this question.  Now that I can
| read pdf documents directly from dired, I would like to do the same
| for ppt docs.

Something like 

(add-to-list 'dired-guess-shell-alist-user '("\\.ppt$" "ooffice"))

in your .emacs should work (untested)

bye,
-- 
Jean


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-14  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-13 16:50 viewing MS powerpoint files from dired Mirko
2010-07-14  8:36 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier [this message]
2010-07-14 14:08   ` Mirko
2010-07-15  8:00 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-07-18  8:29   ` Tim X

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