From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: notbob Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Opening a file from dired as OS would in Linux Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 02:12:30 GMT Organization: ....little, if any Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243651253 21142 80.91.229.12 (30 May 2009 02:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 02:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 30 04:40:50 2009 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 4.50) id 1MAEV3-0001pw-HJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 May 2009 04:40:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MAEV2-0001MW-RM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 22:40:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!elk.ncren.net!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.news-service.com!cyclone02.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf02.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe04.ams2.POSTED!800a5453!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@WWWSpace.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 02:12:30 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169593 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:64824 Archived-At: On 2009-05-29, David Vanderschel wrote: > I am now switching over to Ubuntu, and I do not know how to say the equivalent > of "(w32-shell-execute "open" ...". But I would certainly like to be able to > launch files from dired. E.g., open this .PDF file in the viewer. Not sure if this is what you're looking for. See requirments in beginning of file. I linked to the cached page so you can see the pdf spec. I'm still too green to even load a lisp file, so I'll let you decide. ;) http://tinyurl.com/mpwbtt nb