Re: change of variable name in 21.4

[Baloff]

Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 09:22:16AM +1000, Baloff wrote:
> 
> > Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> 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

thanks, that worked, 

btw, how do you inserted the output of M-x emacs-version in a buffer, 
I mean the whole output which showed in my mini-buffer.

>  GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by Debian

I searched by buffer or insert in M-x apropos: for no avail



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