From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chitlesh Goorah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: open file listed in a text file Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:04:47 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <30ae1176-cfc2-47bf-bdbc-d6f510d8e5b6@d37g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> References: <800bd9a9-0a03-4fc9-b395-328fbd835c93@l26g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <81f0a13d-d1b7-418e-95c4-51462b45fb69@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265877830 25207 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2010 08:43:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:43:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 11 09:43:48 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfUeJ-0002Vs-TG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:43:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NfUeJ-0006vz-E0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:43:47 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d37g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.7.240.226 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1265875487 14000 127.0.0.1 (11 Feb 2010 08:04:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d37g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.7.240.226; posting-account=MEHLBgoAAAA91ofT908k1XnGM8UaLbi1 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176722 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:71793 Archived-At: On Feb 10, 12:01 am, Suvayu Ali wrote: > I don't understand your problem, I just tried the same thing with a > custom environment variable, and it worked. > > `M-! file $ROOTSYS/build/version_number RET' > > returns, > > /home/suvayu/root/build/version_number: ASCII text > > `M-x ffap' prompts me for, > > Find file or URL: ~/root/build/version_number > What I want is that when the cursor is on the path of a file (in a file), I would like to open that particular file with a keyboard shortcut. Chitlesh