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Re: Configuring external viewer for document types in Dired
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Tim X |
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Re: Configuring external viewer for document types in Dired |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:22:05 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Thor376 <thor376@gmail.com> writes:
> When I invoke Dired, many files in the list can be read by Emacs.
> That's just fine. But occasionally I see a PDF file in Dired. Is there
> some possibility to configure an external viewer to launch when I
> press Enter on a PDF file in Dired?
>
> My system is Cygwin for Microsoft Windows XP. Emacs is installed from
> the Cygwin repository. I use Emacs version 21.2.1.
That is a very old version of emacs. Current version is 23 and has
built-in support for viewing PDF files via doc-view mode.
Tim
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