From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:16:35 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87d5753f9o.fsf@hans.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164849451 26789 80.91.229.2 (30 Nov 2006 01:17:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 02:17:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpaXz-0002e4-IA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:17:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpaXy-000684-TL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:17:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpaXj-00061n-Fz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:16:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpaXg-0005uM-Ke for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:16:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpaXg-0005uA-Ew for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.188] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GpaXg-0004oS-7c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.25.87] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwpI-1GpaXe06sP-0000jY; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:16:46 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 35A1376898; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:16:35 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Mathias Dahl In-Reply-To: (Mathias Dahl's message of "Wed\, 29 Nov 2006 12\:02\:04 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39111 Archived-At: Mathias Dahl writes: > Dieter Wilhelm writes: > >> I'd like to be able to open a windows (on XP) compiled help file >> (.chm). It works well with `shell-process' in just giving the shell >> the .chm file as argument. But I can't get it to run with >> start-process. Probably I need to call a viewer for this file. I >> googled around and found that the internet explorer is supposed to >> act as "viewer" for these help files. The next hurdle is where to >> find the executable, I can't find iexplorer.exe or iexplore.exe on >> my disk. > > Have you tried using `w32-shell-execute'? > > (w32-shell-execute "Open" "blabla.chm") Exactly what I needed, works perfect, thank you. Sad that these functions are not mentioned in the Emacs manual for (emacs)Windows Processes. I'm coding mostly under Linux and the w32-* functions are not available when trying `describe-function'. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany