* Opening a file from dired as OS would in Linux
@ 2009-05-29 17:09 David Vanderschel
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From: David Vanderschel @ 2009-05-29 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I have this handy function in my .emacs for Emacs on Windows:
;; dired stuff to open files a la Windows from Howard Melman
(defun dired-execute-file (&optional arg)
(interactive "P")
(mapcar #'(lambda (file)
(w32-shell-execute "open" (convert-standard-filename file)))
(dired-get-marked-files nil arg)))
I am now switching over to Ubuntu, and I do not know how to say the equivalent
of "(w32-shell-execute "open" ...". But I would certainly like to be able to
launch files from dired. E.g., open this .PDF file in the viewer. Maybe it is
already there, but I have difficulty framing the question in an effective way
for search. Thanks for any pointers.
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* Re: Opening a file from dired as OS would in Linux
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@ 2009-05-30 2:12 ` notbob
2009-05-30 18:25 ` jpkotta
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From: notbob @ 2009-05-30 2:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 2009-05-29, David Vanderschel <DJV5@Austin.RR.com> wrote:
> I am now switching over to Ubuntu, and I do not know how to say the equivalent
> of "(w32-shell-execute "open" ...". But I would certainly like to be able to
> launch files from dired. E.g., open this .PDF file in the viewer.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for. See requirments in beginning
of file. I linked to the cached page so you can see the pdf spec. I'm
still too green to even load a lisp file, so I'll let you decide. ;)
http://tinyurl.com/mpwbtt
nb
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* Re: Opening a file from dired as OS would in Linux
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2009-05-30 2:12 ` Opening a file from dired as OS would in Linux notbob
@ 2009-05-30 18:25 ` jpkotta
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From: jpkotta @ 2009-05-30 18:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On May 29, 12:09 pm, David Vanderschel <D...@Austin.RR.com> wrote:
> I have this handy function in my .emacs for Emacs on Windows:
>
> ;; dired stuff to open files a la Windows from Howard Melman
> (defun dired-execute-file (&optional arg)
> (interactive "P")
> (mapcar #'(lambda (file)
> (w32-shell-execute "open" (convert-standard-filename file)))
> (dired-get-marked-files nil arg)))
>
> I am now switching over to Ubuntu, and I do not know how to say the equivalent
> of "(w32-shell-execute "open" ...". But I would certainly like to be able to
> launch files from dired. E.g., open this .PDF file in the viewer. Maybe it is
> already there, but I have difficulty framing the question in an effective way
> for search. Thanks for any pointers.
This pretty much depends on which desktop environment/file manager you
use. Some shell commands to look at are xdg-open, kfmclient exec, and
gnome-open.
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