Re: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 80, Issue 69

Re: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 80, Issue 69

[Alain Muls]

help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org said the following on 20/07/09 18:01:
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> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:39:39 -0700
> From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: dired: launch program withou stalling emacs
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> 2009/7/20 Alain Muls <alain.muls@telenet.be>:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am learning to use dired for file operations. I found out how to launch a
>> program associated with the extension using eg
>>
>> (require 'dired-x)
>> (setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
>>      '(("\\.pdf$" "evince")))
>>
>> The inconvenience of this is that I have to close the program before I can
>> resume working in emacs. Is there a possibility to launch the pdfviewer
>> evince and be able to work in emacs without closing the pdfviewer?
>>
> 
> If you are on GNU/Linux you can try `! xdg-open RET'.
> 

Hi

this works fine for PDF files, but it fails on .fig (xfig) or .odt 
(openoffice) files.

Tx/ALain