On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:03:03PM +1000, Baloff wrote: > Hello > > I have been trying to find the name of the variable to change file > association with an application. according to the book I am reading > it is called Dired-view-command-alist. but not in emacs 21.4a-1 under > Debian. does any one know what the name of the variable is. > I tried C-h [a to z] for no avail. >
,----[ C-h v dired-guess-shell-alist-user RET ] | dired-guess-shell-alist-user's value is shown below. | | Documentation: | User-defined alist of rules for suggested commands. | These rules take precedence over the predefined rules in the variable | `dired-guess-shell-alist-default' (to which they are prepended). | | Each element of this list looks like | | (REGEXP COMMAND...) | | where each COMMAND can either be a string or a lisp expression that evaluates | to a string. If several COMMANDs are given, the first one will be the default | and the rest will be added temporarily to the history and can be retrieved | with M-x previous-history-element (M-p) . | | You can set this variable in your ~/.emacs. For example, to add rules for | `.foo' and `.bar' files, write | | (setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user | (list (list "\\.foo\\'" "FOO-COMMAND");; fixed rule | ;; possibly more rules ... | (list "\\.bar\'";; rule with condition test | '(if condition | "BAR-COMMAND-1" | "BAR-COMMAND-2")))) | | You can customize this variable. | | Defined in `dired-x'. | | Value: | (("\\.pdf$" "xpdf * &") | ("\\.pdf\\.gz$" "zxpdf * &") | ("\\.dvi$" "xdvi * &") | ("\\.ps$" "gv --spartan * &") | ("\\.eps$" "gv --spartan * &") | ("\\.ps\\.gz$" "gv --spartan * &") | ("\\.rtf$" "ted * &") | ("\\.jpeg$" "display * &") | ("\\.jpg$" "display * &") | ("\\.gif$" "display * &") | ("\\.png$" "display * &")) `---- > thanks > > > LocalWords: Dired alist -- Most precious among the relics remaining of Peter's skeleton in the Vatican are 29 fragments of one of his skulls. (St. Peter's other skull is preserved in a reliquary at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran.) -- Frank R. Zindler, "Of Bones and Boners" _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs