From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: unable to create a .cpp file Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:43:47 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <87mzb7k1ko.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153248310 23026 80.91.229.2 (18 Jul 2006 18:45:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 18 20:45:08 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 1G2uZA-0001HJ-7P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:45:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2uZ9-000186-KA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2uYx-00017t-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:44:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2uYw-00016x-A1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:44:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2uYw-00016u-3p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G2ubs-0002de-Iq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:47:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G2uYo-0001CW-J4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:44:46 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:44:46 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:44:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <87mzb7k1ko.fsf@localhost.localdomain> 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:36053 Archived-At: Gary Wessle wrote: > ctl-xf which does find/create a file then I type test.cpp then I get this in > the echo area > **************************************************************** > File is opened with an external viewer. See buffer *extview log* for status messages. > **************************************************************** > > in *extview log* I have > **************************************************************** > Opening file ~/test.cpp with handler: more '%s' > /home/fred/test.cpp: No such file or directory > > Process extview-process finished > **************************************************************** C-h v extview-application-associations If that doesn't yield anything interesting, check the files listed in the mailcap-parse-mimetypes function for a ".cpp" entry: $MAILCAPS (environment variable) ~/.mailcap } ~/mail.cap } on DOS/Windows ~/etc/mail.cap } ~/.mailcap } /etc/mailcap } normal systems /usr/etc/mailcap } /usr/local/etc/mailcap } -- Kevin