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RE: How to auto open excel/doc files
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: How to auto open excel/doc files |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:55:24 -0800 |
> I'd like to auto open files by system application in dired mode.
> For example:
> when I pressed enter at the point of files which is *.xls,it opened by
> excel/openoffice.
> when I pressed enter at the point of files which is *.pdf,it opened by
> acrobat reader.
> Have any advice?
If you are on MS Windows, then try library `w32-browser.el'. It lets you
open files in Dired using Windows file associations, so, for instance,
clicking `mouse-2' on a file foo.xls would open the file in Excel.
Code: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/w32-browser.el
Description: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MsShellExecute and
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DiredPlus.