Re: Launch application with region as a parameter

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Ok... sorry for my terrible english :-(

I mean the following thing... my text-file is..

...
bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla
c:\dira\subdir a\document1.pdf      (*)
bla bla bla bla
c:\dirb\subdir b\image.jpg          (**)
bla bla bla
...


If i've the cursor on (*)... i want open Adobe Reader
 on "c:\dira\subdir a\document1.pdf" and if i've the cursor on (**)...
i want open my Image Viewer on "c:\dirb\subdir b\image.jpg"

Thanks to the suggestions I had found the solution following:

(defun quote-string-for-shell ( string )
  "quote-string-for-shell STRING
   quote the string with \" for the shell. "
  (concat "\"" string "\""))

(defun launch-command-at-point()
"Launch associate application for current thing-at-point string"
(interactive)
(w32-shell-execute "open" "explorer" (quote-string-for-shell (thing-at-point 'line))))

(global-set-key (kbd "<f11>") 'launch-command-at-point)


ThanX!