When I've got a dir-listing showing in an emacs window,
I can 'mid-mouse-it' to open the text.
[how] Can I open it in a window depending on its type ?
Eg. for a *.html, can I indirectly use lynx, which via:
'lynx -dump ' will render it ?

TIA.

problems@gmail writes:

Yep, you sure can. I've done this using defadvice. I just put a
defadvice around view-file which checks to see if the file name ends
with htm/html and if so, view it with w3m, otherwise, it just opens it
normally. Then, in dired, if I hit 'v' to view the file and its an html
file, its rendered, otherwise it is displayed as normal.

I don't have a general answer for you, but on Windows, yes, you can, using
w32-browser.el:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MsShellExecute#w32-browser

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DiredPlus#w32-browser

On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:23:35 -0500 Unknown wrote:

dired-x.el (part of GNU Emacs) has a feature to "guess" the right shell
command, maybe that helps. From my ~/.emacs

(eval-after-load 'dired
'(progn
(require 'dired-x)
(setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user '(("\\.avi" "mplayer ? &")
("\\.mpg" "mplayer ? &")
("\\.wmv" "mplayer ? &")))))

But for simple .html i'd suggest emacs-w3m, a very nice browser.

David

"Drew Adams" oracle.com> writes:

I use extview.el
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/extview.el
I also use this simple code to open an html file in dired with w3m: