From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired: launch program withou stalling emacs
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:39:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe3123490907200839pcc49106w3d98464ce8898509@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6475F7.4000500@telenet.be>
2009/7/20 Alain Muls <alain.muls@telenet.be>:
> Hi
>
> I am learning to use dired for file operations. I found out how to launch a
> program associated with the extension using eg
>
> (require 'dired-x)
> (setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
> '(("\\.pdf$" "evince")))
>
> The inconvenience of this is that I have to close the program before I can
> resume working in emacs. Is there a possibility to launch the pdfviewer
> evince and be able to work in emacs without closing the pdfviewer?
>
If you are on GNU/Linux you can try `! xdg-open RET'.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-20 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-20 13:49 dired: launch program withou stalling emacs Alain Muls
2009-07-20 15:39 ` suvayu ali [this message]
2009-07-20 22:05 ` suvayu ali
[not found] ` <mailman.2864.1248127549.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-11 13:19 ` Jonathan
2009-09-12 23:14 ` suvayu ali
2009-07-20 15:45 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] <mailman.2834.1248097787.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-20 22:43 ` muede
2009-07-21 6:34 ` Josef G. Bauer
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