From: rpd <richard@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: html browser preview help-SORTED (at last!)
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 04:49:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25316992.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25315933.post@talk.nabble.com>
Hi all
Thanks for all your help- I have finally fixed this!
Now (at last) I can preview local .html files in my Internet Explorer
browser (from the menu & C-c C-v comand).
I commented out of my.emacs most of the entries I had tried previously
(including the defun entry that I was developing with ken-93).
I then used M-x cutomize-group [ret] browse-url to check browse url
group states & after some more editing of my .emacs I now have the Browse
Url Browser Function set at >browse-url-default-windows-browser<
(default I suppose) & finally it works!!
Wow- that took some time to fix!-
(this shows the problems with adding other code to .emacs to fix a
problem-some of it works & some doesn't & you have to be a good
detective/editor to find out which is which & know what all this elisp code
means!- Well I'm learning...slowly!).
Many thanks to all who helped-now I better start doing some html editing &
not spending my time fixing emacs...except I still need to tune up chess.el
module-does this emacs fiddling ever stop? I must see the doctor about it
M-x doctor -LOL!) regards
rpd 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
>
>
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-06 11:49 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 ` rpd [this message]
2009-09-06 14:17 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.6097.1252228975.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-06 9:50 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-06 9:56 ` Xah Lee
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