Re: viewing MS powerpoint files from dired

[Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com>]

On Jul 14, 4:36 am, Jean Magnan de Bornier <j...@bornier.net> wrote:
> Mirko <mvuko...@nycap.rr.com> wrote :
>
> | Hello,
>
> | How can I teach dired to launchpowerpointon files with extension ppt
> | (that is on MS Windows)?
>
> | (Writing some elisp is OK).
>
> | You can `blame' the DocView package for this question.  Now that I can
> | read pdf documents directly from dired, I would like to do the same
> | for ppt docs.
>
> Something like
>
> (add-to-list 'dired-guess-shell-alist-user '("\\.ppt$" "ooffice"))
>
> in your .emacs should work (untested)
>
> bye,
> --
> Jean

I could not find dired-guess-shell-alist-user in my emacs, or any
other such variables.  I found a few dired hooks.  I will look into
that.

Thanks,

Mirko