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Re: Browsing dirs from Dired with graphical explorer
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Richard Riley |
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Re: Browsing dirs from Dired with graphical explorer |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:58:18 +0200 |
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Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
>> Hmm. No joy here on Debian.
>>
>> shell-command worked though but only for directories. For files the
>> cursor sat spinning - possibly because the process was waiting for
>> emacsclient to respond?
>
> I don't know. What happens if you eval?
>
> (start-process "dired-external" "*dired-external*"
> "xdg-open" "http://www.freedesktop.org/")
>
> There should be some output in the *dired-external* buffer now.
Yes : "Process dired-external finished". But nothing comes up.
>
> Hm, strange. This doesn't work here, too, and in *dired-external*
> there's only "Process dired-external finished". If I replace "xdg-open"
> with "conkeror" it'll start conkeror on freedesktop.org.
>
> xdg-open http://www.freedesktop.org/
>
> in a terminal starts conkeror on freedesktop.org, too. I'm totally
> stunned why this doesn't work from inside emacs. But
its a relief you are seeing the same as me now :-;
>
> (start-process "dired-external" "*dired-external*"
> "xdg-open" (getenv "HOME"))
great! thanks!
>
> does work and open thunar in my HOME.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me why the first call has no result but the second
> works as expected?
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
>
>
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