From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mirko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: viewing MS powerpoint files from dired Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87wrsyxxwr.fsf@boreebo.bornier.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291845345 15872 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 21:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:55:45 +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 Dec 08 22:55:41 2010 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 1PQRzB-00089D-Gk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:55:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQRzA-0005yK-VZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:55:41 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.218.238.20 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1279116494 5825 127.0.0.1 (14 Jul 2010 14:08:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:08:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=208.218.238.20; posting-account=yS7ZzQoAAACbDncxMo9UeCyhsLtcDWPM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179751 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:76087 Archived-At: On Jul 14, 4:36=A0am, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Mirko 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. =A0Now that I ca= n > | 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