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Re: Opening a file from dired as OS would in Linux


From: notbob
Subject: Re: Opening a file from dired as OS would in Linux
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 02:12:30 GMT
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On 2009-05-29, David Vanderschel <DJV5@Austin.RR.com> wrote:

> I am now switching over to Ubuntu, and I do not know how to say the equivalent
> of "(w32-shell-execute "open" ...".  But I would certainly like to be able to
> launch files from dired.  E.g., open this .PDF file in the viewer.  

Not sure if this is what you're looking for.  See requirments in beginning
of file.  I linked to the cached page so you can see the pdf spec.  I'm
still too green to even load a lisp file, so I'll let you decide.  ;)

http://tinyurl.com/mpwbtt

nb


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