From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to auto open excel/doc files Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:55:24 -0800 Message-ID: References: <45F0074A.4060206@luxdo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173372963 26520 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2007 16:56:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:56:03 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 17:55:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HPLuD-0003uK-9o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:55:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPLuQ-00070y-Sc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HPLuF-00070j-6L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:55:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HPLuC-00070X-QR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:55:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPLuC-00070U-KN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:55:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HPLty-00005m-77 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:55:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l28GtZm5024541 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:55:35 -0700 Original-Received: from rcsmt251.oracle.com (rcsmt251.oracle.com [148.87.90.196]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l28Eidcc006630 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:55:34 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-4op11-4op12-west-130-35-178-179.us.oracle.com by rcsmt251.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2512459191173372929; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:55:29 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <45F0074A.4060206@luxdo.co.jp> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:41806 Archived-At: > I'd like to auto open files by system application in dired mode. > For example: > when I pressed enter at the point of files which is *.xls,it opened by > excel/openoffice. > when I pressed enter at the point of files which is *.pdf,it opened by > acrobat reader. > Have any advice? If you are on MS Windows, then try library `w32-browser.el'. It lets you open files in Dired using Windows file associations, so, for instance, clicking `mouse-2' on a file foo.xls would open the file in Excel. Code: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/w32-browser.el Description: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MsShellExecute and http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DiredPlus.