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Re: viewing MS powerpoint files from dired
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Mirko |
Subject: |
Re: viewing MS powerpoint files from dired |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:18:45 -0000 |
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On Jul 14, 4:36 am, Jean Magnan de Bornier <j...@bornier.net> wrote:
> Mirko <mvuko...@nycap.rr.com> wrote :
>
> | Hello,
>
> | How can I teach dired to launchpowerpointon files with extension ppt
> | (that is on MS Windows)?
>
> | (Writing some elisp is OK).
>
> | You can `blame' the DocView package for this question. Now that I can
> | read pdf documents directly from dired, I would like to do the same
> | for ppt docs.
>
> Something like
>
> (add-to-list 'dired-guess-shell-alist-user '("\\.ppt$" "ooffice"))
>
> in your .emacs should work (untested)
>
> bye,
> --
> Jean
I could not find dired-guess-shell-alist-user in my emacs, or any
other such variables. I found a few dired hooks. I will look into
that.
Thanks,
Mirko