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Re: dired + associating external programs
From: |
Thierry Volpiatto |
Subject: |
Re: dired + associating external programs |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:33:25 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
> chandan <chandanlinster@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am using emacs 22.1.1 on ubuntu 7.10.
>> I would like to know if there is any way of associating external
>> programs to known file types in "dired". For example, associating
>> * audio files (ogg, mp3, ...) with xmms,
>> * office files (odt, odp, ...) with openoffice,
>> * ...
>
> There are many ways to do this. There are some packages (check the emacs
> wiki at http://www.emacswiki.org) and dired-x has some facilities to
> configure dired so that when you hit ! it will make a guess as to the
> program you want to run on that file. There was a package posted to
> g.e.sources and this group in the last week or so that implemented ways to
> call external probrams, but I don't remember the name of it.
>
> The way I solved this was to use defadvice on view-file which looked at the
> file extension of the file about to be viewed and if it was one that had a
> recognised type, I would handle it in some particular way (convert to text,
> render in w3m etc), otherwise, just view as normal.
>
> Tim
Hi, i use extview.el, it's work fine.
It read in a .mailcap file.
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A + Thierry