From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neon Absentius Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change of variable name in 21.4 Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 00:32:06 +0000 Message-ID: <20050904003206.GA3623@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <87k6hy37ew.fsf@wash.edu> <873bol91p3.fsf@wash.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125795167 18861 80.91.229.2 (4 Sep 2005 00:52:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 00:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 04 02:52:46 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBijq-0005bz-5u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 02:52:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBioC-00007A-OC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EBilt-00083b-M9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EBilp-00081D-85 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:54:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBilo-0007vw-Tq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.94.73.21] (helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EBiU1-00013F-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:absent@otaku.freeshell.org [192.94.73.2]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j840W76p001652 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 00:32:07 GMT Original-Received: (from absent@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.8/Submit) id j840W662018298 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 00:32:06 GMT Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: Neon Absentius , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <873bol91p3.fsf@wash.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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:29195 Archived-At: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 09:22:16AM +1000, Baloff wrote: > Neon Absentius writes: > > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:03:03PM +1000, Baloff wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > > > > I have been trying to find the name of the variable to change file > > > association with an application. according to the book I am reading > > > it is called Dired-view-command-alist. but not in emacs 21.4a-1 under > > > Debian. does any one know what the name of the variable is. > > > I tried C-h [a to z] for no avail. > > > > > > > ,----[ C-h v dired-guess-shell-alist-user RET ] > > | dired-guess-shell-alist-user's value is shown below. --- 8< --- > > what emacs version are you using? I cannot find this variable in the > package emacs 21.4a-1 packaged by Debian. > Well I am using mostly emacs-multi-tty (22.0.50.1) on Debian testing/unstable but I have also installed the default emacs21 package that is in etch (or unstable). In that emacs "M-x version" gives GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by Debian and when I give "C-h v dired-guess-shell-alist-user RET" it gives the anwer I quoted above. The answer to your problem might be in this part > | Defined in `dired-x'. This variable is not in the plain vanila dired, you have to use dired-x. I have the following in my .emacs: ;; load the extended dired stuff. ;; (info "(dired-x)") (require 'dired-x) HTH -- Most precious among the relics remaining of Peter's skeleton in the Vatican are 29 fragments of one of his skulls. (St. Peter's other skull is preserved in a reliquary at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran.) -- Frank R. Zindler, "Of Bones and Boners"