Open file with external program

Open file with external program

[Zhu Shenli]

Hi emacsers,

When I use Emacs file selecting tools (dired-mode, locate-mode) to open 
pdf file, Emacs choose to open pdf file in it.

So, I guess whether there is any existing tool do that: Ask in 
mini-buffer "Do you want to open the file in (a) Emacs (b) 
program-name-1 (c) ...

Thanks,
  -Z

Re: Open file with external program

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.04.2010 um 06:06 schrieb Zhu Shenli:

> So, I guess whether there is any existing tool do that: Ask in mini- 
> buffer "Do you want to open the file in (a) Emacs (b) program-name-1  
> (c) ...


No. Either use an old version of GNU Emacs without doc-view-mode or  
delete particular file types from its control:

(setq auto-mode-alist (delete '("\\.\\(?:PDF\\|DVI\\|pdf\\|dvi\\)\ 
\'" . doc-view-mode) auto-mode-alist))


More details in info.

--
Greetings

   Pete

                   Sorry my terrible English, my native language Lisp

Re: Open file with external program

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 21.04.2010 um 06:06 schrieb Zhu Shenli:
>
>> So, I guess whether there is any existing tool do that: Ask in mini-
>> buffer "Do you want to open the file in (a) Emacs (b) program-name-1 
>> (c) ...
>
>
> No. Either use an old version of GNU Emacs without doc-view-mode or
> delete particular file types from its control:

I use here http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/extview.el
but there is other tools that do that to, don't remember names, check
emacswiki.

> (setq auto-mode-alist (delete '("\\.\\(?:PDF\\|DVI\\|pdf\\|dvi\\)\
> \'" . doc-view-mode) auto-mode-alist))
>
>
> More details in info.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
>                   Sorry my terrible English, my native language Lisp
>
>
>
>

-- 
Thierry Volpiatto
Gpg key: http://pgp.mit.edu/

Re: Open file with external program

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Thierry Volpiatto
<thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>
>> Am 21.04.2010 um 06:06 schrieb Zhu Shenli:
>>
>>> So, I guess whether there is any existing tool do that: Ask in mini-
>>> buffer "Do you want to open the file in (a) Emacs (b) program-name-1
>>> (c) ...
>>
>>
>> No. Either use an old version of GNU Emacs without doc-view-mode or
>> delete particular file types from its control:
>
> I use here http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/extview.el
> but there is other tools that do that to, don't remember names, check
> emacswiki.

Another one is sex-mode.el in nXhtml.

Re: Open file with external program

[Zhu Shenli]

On 04/21/2010 03:38 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 21.04.2010 um 06:06 schrieb Zhu Shenli:
>
>> So, I guess whether there is any existing tool do that: Ask in 
>> mini-buffer "Do you want to open the file in (a) Emacs (b) 
>> program-name-1 (c) ...
>
>
> No. Either use an old version of GNU Emacs without doc-view-mode or 
> delete particular file types from its control:
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist (delete '("\\.\\(?:PDF\\|DVI\\|pdf\\|dvi\\)\\'" 
> . doc-view-mode) auto-mode-alist))
>
>
> More details in info.
>
> -- 
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
>                   Sorry my terrible English, my native language Lisp
>
Hi Pete, thank you!

Dmitri suggested to use dired-x shell command guessing. And it works 
well both on dired and locate.