Re: How to invoke Windows programs on a file from dired

Danke schoen.

    Mark

On 1/14/2013 1:17 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> The Emacs analog to Windows Explorer is dired (directory editor).
>> In Windows Explorer you can select a file, right-click, and select
>> an operation to perform on that file.  In Emacs dired you can select
>> a file and perform an operation on that file.
>>
>> However the set of operations Emacs knows about is different from
>> the set of operations Windows Explorer knows about.  In addition
>> to the usual dired operations, I'd really like to be able to run
>> the operations Windows Explorer knows about from within the Windows
>> version of Emacs.  Does anyone know if this capability has ever
>> been implemented?  If so, what do I need to install?
> Load `w32-browser.el' and `dired+.el', and you'll be good to go.
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> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DiredPlus#toc2
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> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/w32-browser.el
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/dired%2b.el
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> (You might also be interested in Bookmark+, which lets you take advantage of MS
> Windows file associations when using bookmarks:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BookmarkPlus#toc33)
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