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Re: double-click or return in dired to launch application
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Benjamin Rutt |
Subject: |
Re: double-click or return in dired to launch application |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:47:48 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) |
Joel Smith <joelvsmith@earthlink.net> writes:
> is it possible to double-click on a file in dired and have it launch
> an application, i.e. click on a .doc document and word opens with
> the document. i'm using emacsnt, but it would be interesting to set
> this up at home on my linux box as well. thanks.
I have the following set up to do file associations and actions:
(setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
'(("\\.jpe?g\\'" "xli")
("\\.gif\\'" "xli")
("\\.pdf\\'" "acroread")
("\\.pdf.gz\\'" "gv")
("\\.ps.gz\\'" "gv")
("\\.ps\\'" "gv")))
which allows me to specify what happens when I apply the ! key in
dired to a specific file. I suppose you could add something like
("\\.doc\\'" "start")
to that list in windows and it should work (use "ooffice" instead of
"start" in linux). Then, you could press ! RET on one of those files.
I'm not sure if that's what you want.
As to how to get it to work from a double-click, I'm not sure if it's
possible or not to intercept double-clicks, anyone?
--
Benjamin