On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 09:22:16AM +1000, Baloff wrote: > 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. --- 8< --- > > what emacs version are you using? I cannot find this variable in the > package emacs 21.4a-1 packaged by Debian. >
Well I am using mostly emacs-multi-tty (22.0.50.1) on Debian testing/unstable but I have also installed the default emacs21 package that is in etch (or unstable). In that emacs "M-x version" gives GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by Debian and when I give "C-h v dired-guess-shell-alist-user RET" it gives the anwer I quoted above. The answer to your problem might be in this part > | Defined in `dired-x'. This variable is not in the plain vanila dired, you have to use dired-x. I have the following in my .emacs: ;; load the extended dired stuff. ;; (info "(dired-x)") (require 'dired-x) HTH -- 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
