Re: viewing MS powerpoint files from dired

[Andreas Politz]

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

> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mirko

I use this function :

(defun dired-open-file (arg)
  "Abuse org-open-file to open a file in dired."
  (interactive "P")
  (require 'org)
  (if arg
      (org-open-file (dired-get-filename)
                     (equal arg '(16)))
    (dired-advertised-find-file)))


-ap