From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: place of .els Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 18:23:02 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87bqu53r89.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: <87u07xzfqi.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <87psilyzxa.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147336877 28038 80.91.229.2 (11 May 2006 08:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 11 10:41:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fe6jT-0007mm-D3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 10:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fe6jT-0000Fe-00 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 04:41:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!sn-xt-sjc-15!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9hvRl/Umv1IeIKCDhHFPEZa2Y8E= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 64 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139348 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:34971 Archived-At: Gary Wessle writes: > "John Conrad" writes: > >> On 11 May 2006 08:17:57 +1000, Gary Wessle wrote: >> > >> > Hi >> > >> > I want to use extview.el which is not supplied by debian/testing, so I >> > downloaded it and now what? where do I place it to be safe? the >> > load-path has lots and lots of locations, should I place it somewhere >> > under /usr/local/...? >> >> >> I have a lisp directory in my home directory where I store files like the >> one you're talking about. I prefer this because I backup my home directory >> more carefully than /usr/local/, and it's where I put my own homemade elisp >> concoctions as well as those that don't come standard with emacs. >> >> Anyway, the point is that you're not limited to the locations that are >> currently listed in your load-path variable. If you want to add a new >> location to your load-path, add this line to your .emacs file: >> >> (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/directory") > > > I did just that and placed in my .emacs the lines > > (require 'extview) > (push '("\\.pdf$" . "xpdf %s") extview-application-associations) > (push '("\\.html$" . "firefox %s") extview-application-associations) > > now when I C-x C-f a pdf file, it opens it with xpdf, but not a html > file where I expected it to use firefox, any idea why? > This is a wag (wild arse guess) and I've got no real facts, so I cannot claim its a swag (scientific wild arse guess), but it could be that *.html is associated with a mode in auto-mode-alist and that is taking precedence over the external viewer alist. You could try removing it and see if that helps. Personally, I use browse-url to view a rendered version of an html file and bind that to a key i.e. (global-set-key "\C-c\C-z." 'browse-url-at-point) (global-set-key "\C-c\C-zb" 'browse-url-of-buffer) (global-set-key "\C-c\C-zr" 'browse-url-of-region) (global-set-key "\C-c\C-zu" 'browse-url) (global-set-key "\C-c\C-zv" 'browse-url-of-file) (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook (lambda () (local-set-key "\C-c\C-zf" 'browse-url-of-dired-file))) Using customize, I have set the browse-url-function to my preferred browser. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au