Re: Dired - open files external

[Igor Sosa Mayor]

Martin <kleinerdrache@gmx.at> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> Dired works fine here, but I cannot figure out how to open the filex
> external.
>
> Special docx and pdf should be opened external, pdf not allways but
> mostly.  How can I do that?  (For docx - it does not make much sense for
> me to see the files inside, but open it with libreoffice would be quite
> good.)
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
>

you could do this the following:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(require 'dired+)

(setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
        '(("\\.xls\\'" "soffice")
          ("\\.ods\\'" "soffice")
          ("\\.odt\\'" "soffice")
          ("\\.pdf\\'" "zathura")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and then press ! on the file. 


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