Re: Open file with external program

[Zhu Shenli]

On 04/21/2010 03:38 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 21.04.2010 um 06:06 schrieb Zhu Shenli:
>
> > So, I guess whether there is any existing tool do that: Ask in 
> > mini-buffer "Do you want to open the file in (a) Emacs (b) 
> > program-name-1 (c) ...
>
>
> No. Either use an old version of GNU Emacs without doc-view-mode or 
> delete particular file types from its control:
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist (delete '("\\.\\(?:PDF\\|DVI\\|pdf\\|dvi\\)\\'" 
> . doc-view-mode) auto-mode-alist))
>
>
> More details in info.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
>                   Sorry my terrible English, my native language Lisp
Hi Pete, thank you!

Dmitri suggested to use dired-x shell command guessing. And it works 
well both on dired and locate.