RE: html browser preview help

[rpd <richard@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk>]

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


Drew Adams wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> I have tried so many ways to get to preview .html in Internet Explorer
>> browser including w32-browser.el and unfortunately nothing 
>> has yet worked
>> 
>> Vista works normally such as if I click
>> a local directory .html file it opens in Internet Explorer 
>> but I cannot get
>> this function to work in Emacs! (the closest I get is opening w3
>> browser-text browser only).
>> 
>> Have you any idea what the problem with this is? Thanks
> 
> As I said, I haven't followed this thread. I'm also no expert on this
> stuff.
> 
> Are you trying to open your browser on a Web page (URL) somewhere on the
> Web, or
> are you trying to preview a local (or remote, if you know the machine
> etc.) HTML
> file in your Web browser? I thought it was the latter.
> 
> If the former, then you probably need to use a URL and a command such as
> `browse-url'. But someone else will be able to help you more with that.
> 
> If the latter, then w32-browser.el should do what you need.
> 
> All it does is call function `w32-shell-execute' on the file name (or punt
> to
> `find-file' in case of error). That function is an Emacs built-in. Try it:
> `M-:
> (w32-shell-execute nil "c:/my/file.htm")', assuming your file is at
> "c:/my/file.htm" and you have your Windows file associations set up so
> that
> *.htm files open with your Web browser. That should work.
> 
> I don't use Vista, and I've about exhausted my knowledge of this area. ;-)
> Hope
> someone else can help you out.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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