Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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"
I think it might be defined in dired-x, which you need to load explicitly. It is certainly available with emacs 21.4 on Debian. Tim -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out! _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs