From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Open file at point with external program Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 23:15:56 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <877hnksn3n.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: <8cf09a85-9442-42b2-9f79-aac7789c6304@i10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273017014 11138 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 23:50:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 23:50:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 01:50:13 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O9RsQ-0002P0-NW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 01:50:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60038 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9RsQ-0006CE-3v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:50:10 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1272921356 21173 143.93.54.11 (3 May 2010 21:15:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 21:15:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qz+UTOA2Ps+KkXO3aoAOGBHY+vI= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-215-212.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177893 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:73304 Archived-At: michael writes: > Hi, > > suppose I use emacs to edit a file which contains a path to a file, > e.g. /path/to/file/file.pdf, suppose point is at the string /path/to/ > file/file.pdf, is it possible to open file.pdf with a single command > using an *external* program (e.g. gnome-open)? > > thanks, > michael I abuse org-mode for doing this kind of thing in a dired-buffer. I suppose this can also work with,e.g. ffap : (defun dired-open-file (arg) "Abuse org-open-file to open a file at point externally." (interactive "P") (require 'org) (require 'ffap) (org-open-file (or (ffap-guesser) (error "No filename at point")) arg)) -ap