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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 14:00:21 +0200 |
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Emacs 22.2.1/No Gnus v0.11 |
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
I spoke too soon. It does not work here... I just get
Process dired-external finished
again the buffer.
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