From: Baloff <washdc@wash.edu>
Subject: Re: change of variable name in 21.4
Date: 04 Sep 2005 09:22:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bol91p3.fsf@wash.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5837.1125750118.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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
>
> --
> 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"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-03 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-03 8:03 change of variable name in 21.4 Baloff
2005-09-03 8:15 ` Tim X
2005-09-03 12:03 ` Neon Absentius
[not found] ` <mailman.5837.1125750118.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-03 23:22 ` Baloff [this message]
2005-09-04 0:32 ` Neon Absentius
2005-09-04 4:58 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.5869.1125795282.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-04 10:20 ` Baloff
2005-09-04 11:33 ` Neon Absentius
[not found] ` <mailman.5879.1125834869.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-05 9:10 ` Baloff
2005-09-05 13:33 ` Josh Staiger
2005-09-05 16:18 ` Neon Absentius
[not found] ` <mailman.5959.1125937411.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-05 19:40 ` Baloff
2005-09-05 19:27 ` Neon Absentius
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