From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rpd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: html browser preview help Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <25303306.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <25273542.post@talk.nabble.com> <4A9FC945.8070703@mousecar.com> <25283740.post@talk.nabble.com> <4AA031B3.1060908@mousecar.com> <25285280.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252105880 15451 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2009 23:11:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:11:20 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 05 01:11:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mjhvz-0004Jb-D3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:11:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33563 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjhvy-0002Mc-8s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:11:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjhva-0002MX-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:10:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjhvU-0002M3-O9 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:10:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37677 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjhvU-0002M0-JX for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:52888) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjhvT-0002Ce-Uh for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MjhvS-0004S9-9d for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:10:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: <25285280.post@talk.nabble.com> X-Nabble-From: richard@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:67883 Archived-At: Hi I still need some help to get to preview html files in my Internet Explorer browser. ken-93 helped me with some code (which opens Firefox browser) which I have tried to adapt to do this for Internet Explorer but it isn't working. I am using html-helper-mode Here is my last current code try: ; Windows Internet explorer browser to go to the file in the current buffer (defun browse-file-url-ie-new-tab (url &optional new-window) "Open the current file, the file associated with the current buffer, in a new IE tab." (interactive "i") (unless (string= "" (shell-command-to-string (concat "w32-shell-execute open iexplore 'openURL(file://" buffer-file-name ", new-tab)'"))) (message " Opening in IE new tab: " buffer-file-name))) (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-file-url-ie-new-tab) After I do ' M-x browse-file-url-ie-new-tab ' I get 'Opening in IE:' & then 'M-x-browse-url-' in minibuffer. I don't know why this preview function doesn't work for me by default for html files in html-helper mode. When I use the menu option (or from minibuffer) to 'Load this Buffer in Browser' I get an InternetExplorer browser window to open but showing my homepage, not the html file content. I am most grateful if someone can help me to either get the above code to open a local directory html file to open in Internet Explorer browser or to suggest any other way I can preview html files to help me edit them. I lok forward to some helpul reply, thanks rpd wrote: > > Hi ken-93 > > Thanks for your prompt response & encouragement to me to get this html > preview emacs function working. > > As I am using Vista O/S at command shell/prompt simply running start > filename.html opens internet explorer (MS/Vista browser & btw it does have > tabs) with the local directory file opening. > Somehow I need to get Emacs lisp to understand this! > > Thanks & regards > > ken-93 wrote: >> >> >> Hey, it looks like you're almost there. >> >> Go to the command prompt ("Start | Run | cmd"... something like that) >> and try to get explorer to open a local html file. From what you're >> telling me something like: >> >>> start iexplore.exe filename.html >> >> should work. I don't know... don't use explorer much. There might be >> an option to tell it to pop a new window and/or not to. >> >> Seems to me that since your function is getting through to explorer but >> it doesn't know it's supposed to open a particular file, you need to >> change something in that "(concat ..." line. For one thing, since >> explorer doesn't use tabs (or does it?), take out the "-new-tab" stuff; >> that's a firefox option. You also have that string in the final "(setq >> ..." line. >> >> Once you figure out how to get explorer to pop a window and load the >> file you designate-- *from the command line*-- then you'll be closer to >> getting a working emacs function. >> >> >> hth, >> ken >> >> >> On 09/03/2009 04:42 PM rpd wrote: >>> Hi ken-93 >>> >>> Thanks again for your helpful reply. >>> I have tried to follow your advice & code but I still need some help. >>> (BTW O/S=Vista & browser=InternetExplorer8) >>> >>> To open internet explorer from the shell> start iexplore.exe >>> >>> From this I edited your .emacs defun code to: >>> >>> (defun browse-file-url-ie-new-tab (url &optional new-window) >>> "Open the current file, the file associated with the current buffer, >>> in a new IE tab." >>> (interactive "i") >>> (unless >>> (string= "" >>> (shell-command-to-string >>> (concat "start iexplore.exe" buffer-file-name >>> ", new-tab)'"))) >>> (message "Opening in IE new tab: " buffer-file-name))) >>> (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-file-url-ie-new-tab) >>> >>> When I try this I get a browser to open at my homepage. >>> (I have tried to edit this in other ways but again with no success). >>> >>> The code I have which opens my IE browser normally is: >>> >>> (setq >>> browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic >>> browse-url-generic-program "C:\\Program Files\\Internet >>> Explorer\\iexplore.exe") >>> >>> (setq gnus-button-url 'browse-url-generic >>> browse-url-generic-program "C:\\Program Files\\Internet >>> Explorer\\iexplore.exe" >>> browse-url-browser-function gnus-button-url) >>> >>> Any idea how I should proceed/what I can try to fix this please? >>> Many thanks & best wishes >>> >>> >>> >>> ken-93 wrote: >>>> >>>> I've been doing this for a long time in html-helper-mode so, yes, it >>>> can >>>> be done. I created my own function though... actually two of them: one >>>> to open the current (html) buffer in a new tab (for displaying the html >>>> file the first time) and another function to open that same current >>>> buffer in the same tab (for displaying the html file subsequent times). >>>> >>>> You don't say which browser you want to do this with and, of course, >>>> the >>>> emacs function is going to need to know this (unless you use an >>>> environmental variable to designate it, in which case you'll need to >>>> determine what that is). In addition, you'll need to know which >>>> version >>>> of that browser (whichever it is) you have. I've been using firefox >>>> for >>>> quite a time and often, when I upgrade it, the command for loading a >>>> url >>>> into an existing tab or into a new tab changes; of course this means I >>>> have to alter my emacs/html-helper-mode function. >>>> >>>> In short, the first thing to do is to find out what the commands work >>>> from your shell to open a new- or a current-tab (or window, if that's >>>> what you prefer) in your browser and give it a url. Then, after you've >>>> successfully done these from the cli, then plug these into an emacs >>>> function. The cli input which works for me to open a file in a new tab >>>> is: >>>> >>>> /usr/bin/firefox -new-tab [url] >>>> >>>> Other commands work also. Much depends on what your firefox defaults >>>> are. One configuration I have is to "open new urls in a new tab"; this >>>> (for some silly reason) prevents me from opening a url in the current >>>> firefox tab. It didn't always do this; earlier Firefox versions had an >>>> option to open a url in a current tab. The lesson from this is that >>>> what cli command you use is going to depend upon, not just which >>>> browser >>>> you use, but also which *version* of that browser as well as what >>>> preferences you've set for that browser/version. >>>> >>>> You also didn't say which OS you're using and that can of course play a >>>> role in which command you'll plug into your emacs function. >>>> >>>> Anyway, once you figure out what command(s) do(es) what you want, plug >>>> it into: >>>> >>>> ;;Works for opening a file in a new firefox tab >>>> (defun browse-file-url-firefox-new-tab (url &optional new-window) >>>> "Open the current file, the file associated with the current buffer, >>>> in a new Firefox tab." >>>> (interactive "i") >>>> (unless >>>> (string= "" >>>> (shell-command-to-string >>>> (concat "firefox -a firefox -remote 'openURL(file://" >>>> buffer-file-name >>>> ", new-tab)'"))) >>>> (message "Opening in Firefox new tab: " buffer-file-name))) >>>> (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-file-url-firefox-new-tab) >>>> >>>> Just change the "(concat ..." line to reflect the cli command which >>>> works for you. >>>> >>>> Since firefox (nonsensically) did away with a command-line option for >>>> opening a url in a current tab, I now have to change focus to firefox >>>> and reload the tab to show any editing I've done (in emacs) since >>>> previously displaying it in firefox. >>>> >>>> (If anyone here has the ear of a firefox developer, tell them to gives >>>> us back the "-current-tab" option.) >>>> >>>> hth, >>>> ken >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> War is a failure of the imagination. >>>> --William Blake >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 09/03/2009 06:47 AM rpd wrote: >>>>> Hi >>>>> Just encountered this problem previewing html editing in emacs. >>>>> When I edit html (I have html-helper-mode file loaded) I want to >>>>> preview >>>>> it >>>>> in my browser but cannot yet do so. If I use the 'html' menu item >>>>> (load >>>>> this >>>>> buffer in browser) or C-c C-z v I just get browser opening at my >>>>> homepage >>>>> & >>>>> not showing the html edit preview I want. >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone know why this is & can help me get my html emacs edit to >>>>> preview >>>>> in my browser? >>>>> >>>>> Again I am most grateful for helpful replies (Emacs is good isn't it?! >>>>> -I >>>>> just wish I could do what I want with it-but I will do it! LOL), many >>>>> thanks >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/html-browser-preview-help-tp25273542p25303306.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.