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Re: Open file at point with external program
From: |
Andreas Politz |
Subject: |
Re: Open file at point with external program |
Date: |
Mon, 03 May 2010 23:15:56 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
michael <mchls5714@googlemail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> suppose I use emacs to edit a file which contains a path to a file,
> e.g. /path/to/file/file.pdf, suppose point is at the string /path/to/
> file/file.pdf, is it possible to open file.pdf with a single command
> using an *external* program (e.g. gnome-open)?
>
> thanks,
> michael
I abuse org-mode for doing this kind of thing in a dired-buffer. I
suppose this can also work with,e.g. ffap :
(defun dired-open-file (arg)
"Abuse org-open-file to open a file at point externally."
(interactive "P")
(require 'org)
(require 'ffap)
(org-open-file (or (ffap-guesser)
(error "No filename at point"))
arg))
-ap