From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: html browser preview help
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 02:50:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6fba6fd5-e37f-47f7-842c-5bfd84b2d8bd@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6097.1252228975.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Sep 6, 2:22 am, rpd <rich...@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Drew
>
> Thanks for your reply.
> (I am trying to preview a local .html file in my Internet Explorer browser)
>
> I do not understand this > 'M-: < command you give?
> When I try this (& combinations of) in the minibuffer I get 'no-match'
>
> Is that really the command? (I did an internet search for it & couldn't find
> it).
>
> Anyway I have not been able to try this yet as I cannot enter the command:
>
> `M-: (w32-shell-execute nil "c:/my/file.htm")'
>
> Can you please explain/clarify this for me?
> Many thanks, regards
The “M-:” is emacs notation for the keyboard shortcut “Alt+:”.
So, it means, press Alt, press “:”, then type “(w32-shell-execute nil
"c:/my/file.htm")'”
This is a frequent confusion point for emacs. See:
• Emacs's M-‹key› Notation vs Alt+‹key› Notation
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_meta_key.html
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-06 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-03 10:47 html browser preview help rpd
2009-09-03 13:48 ` ken
2009-09-03 20:42 ` rpd
2009-09-03 21:14 ` ken
2009-09-03 22:32 ` rpd
2009-09-04 23:10 ` rpd
2009-09-05 17:11 ` Tyler Smith
2009-09-05 21:27 ` rpd
2009-09-05 21:44 ` Drew Adams
2009-09-06 0:13 ` rpd
2009-09-06 1:19 ` Tyler Smith
2009-09-06 9:15 ` rpd
2009-09-06 1:39 ` Drew Adams
2009-09-06 9:22 ` rpd
2009-09-06 11:49 ` html browser preview help-SORTED (at last!) rpd
2009-09-06 14:17 ` html browser preview help Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.6097.1252228975.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-06 9:50 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2009-09-06 9:56 ` Xah Lee
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