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Re: viewing MS powerpoint files from dired


From: Jean Magnan de Bornier
Subject: Re: viewing MS powerpoint files from dired
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:18:41 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com> wrote :

| Hello,
>
| How can I teach dired to launch powerpoint on files with extension ppt
| (that is on MS Windows)?
>
| (Writing some elisp is OK).
>
| You can `blame' the DocView package for this question.  Now that I can
| read pdf documents directly from dired, I would like to do the same
| for ppt docs.

Something like 

(add-to-list 'dired-guess-shell-alist-user '("\\.ppt$" "ooffice"))

in your .emacs should work (untested)

bye,
-- 
Jean


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