Neon Absentius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 * &")) > `----
what emacs version are you using? I cannot find this variable in the package emacs 21.4a-1 packaged by Debian. > > > > 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