[OS X Emacs] Emacs.app doesn't do aliases...

[Joe Davison]

Oh!

    Well, isn't that interesting!   That did work, for both aliases.   
-- I suppose "open" in those cases defaults to "-a this app",  
effectively.

Thanks,

  joe


On Dec 24, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 24.12.2007 um 15:28 schrieb Joe Davison:
>
>> I must misunderstand some of "Use from dired or shell the open  
>> command."  I tried (both o and f) from dired on both the  
>> directoryalias and the filealias, and neither did what I wanted.
>
> I was thinking of pressing ``!´´ – i.e. dired-do-shell-command.  
> Then you can supply open in the minibuffer as the command to be  
> used with that file. The same open command that can also be used on  
> the command line.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
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