From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: michael Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Open file at point with external program Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 08:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8cf09a85-9442-42b2-9f79-aac7789c6304@i10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273016646 10083 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 23:44:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 23:44:06 +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 01:44:05 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 1O9RmW-00008r-NL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 01:44:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38876 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9RmW-0007MC-1E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:44:04 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.230.1.27 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1272899190 11379 127.0.0.1 (3 May 2010 15:06:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:06:30 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=132.230.1.27; posting-account=H3kG6goAAABkWPS6Jo4F126NCW9gYB4c User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3pre) Gecko/20100316 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Namoroka/3.6.3pre,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177888 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:73299 Archived-At: 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