From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: openwith.el 0.8f -- Open files with external programs Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:35:16 +0100 Message-ID: References: <868x4xfxwz.fsf@timbral.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195483252 2065 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2007 14:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 19 15:40:59 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 1Iu7nl-00038V-Sc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:40:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iu7nY-0000tO-9f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: individual.net B8Y+0TSQiFD3jO8yt9FKbwjbufaCfNISReQitIh5htm3LlEqqc Cancel-Lock: sha1:mO1CCMAcwKeEBpKYXMY+DLGCh1I= sha1:OVVet2ry5frb+fxMH0VfnZghaJA= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153913 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:49345 Archived-At: Markus Triska writes: >> but the behavior i would like to have (fwiw) is a separate command on >> a separate key binding which would be similar to what this does, but >> would instead ask me first for a file name, like C-x C-f does, but >> then would say (e.g.), `Open foo.pdf with what program (xpdf)? ' -- >> the point being that any time i used C-x C-f i would be asking to >> visit a file in the buffer, as text, but if i _did_ want to open >> something with a separate program, i would use a different command, >> and it would give me both an intelligent default and the option to use >> something different. There would be no need for a mode to turn on. It >> would mean one extra time hitting `enter' each time, but then no >> futzing around those times you don't want it to do the default. Well, >> a thought, anyway. > > Sounds good, I will add that in the next release (soon). For now, if it > helps, you can set openwith-confirm-invocation to t, and openwith will > ask whether to open the file externally. Thank you for the suggestion! You are now entering the realms of `anything.el'. Check that out.