Re: change of variable name in 21.4

[Baloff <washdc@wash.edu>]

Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> 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.
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | User-defined alist of rules for suggested commands.
> | These rules take precedence over the predefined rules in the variable
> | `dired-guess-shell-alist-default' (to which they are prepended).
> | 
> | Each element of this list looks like
> | 
> |     (REGEXP COMMAND...)
> | 
> | where each COMMAND can either be a string or a lisp expression that evaluates
> | to a string.  If several COMMANDs are given, the first one will be the default
> | and the rest will be added temporarily to the history and can be retrieved
> | with M-x previous-history-element (M-p) .
> | 
> | You can set this variable in your ~/.emacs.  For example, to add rules for
> | `.foo' and `.bar' files, write
> | 
> |  (setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
> |        (list (list "\\.foo\\'" "FOO-COMMAND");; fixed rule
> |               ;; possibly more rules ...
> |               (list "\\.bar\'";; rule with condition test
> |                     '(if condition
> |                           "BAR-COMMAND-1"
> |                         "BAR-COMMAND-2"))))
> | 
> | You can customize this variable.
> | 
> | Defined in `dired-x'.
> | 
> | Value:
> | (("\\.pdf$" "xpdf * &")
> |  ("\\.pdf\\.gz$" "zxpdf * &")
> |  ("\\.dvi$" "xdvi * &")
> |  ("\\.ps$" "gv --spartan * &")
> |  ("\\.eps$" "gv --spartan * &")
> |  ("\\.ps\\.gz$" "gv --spartan * &")
> |  ("\\.rtf$" "ted * &")
> |  ("\\.jpeg$" "display * &")
> |  ("\\.jpg$" "display * &")
> |  ("\\.gif$" "display * &")
> |  ("\\.png$" "display * &"))
> `----


what emacs version are you using? I cannot find this variable in the
package emacs 21.4a-1 packaged by Debian.

> 
> 
> > thanks
> > 
> > >  LocalWords:  Dired alist
> 
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