Re: Exporting to HTML opens resulting file

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Gary,

maybe we need to settle some terminology first.

When Org-mode exports, is is actually producing the product in a  
buffer.  So the buffer is there first.  When it is complete, the  
buffer is written to a file, but stays in Emacs - so we now have a  
buffer visiting the file on the disk.

So if you are exporting in order to produce the file, you may not want  
to keep the buffer.  That is a perfectly reasonable request.  Of  
course, sometimes you might want to look at the buffer - in that case  
you'd want to keep it.

So there is no general solution for this.

The variable org-export-kill-product-buffer-when-displayed has the  
following effect: Some export commands do not only produce the export  
file, but immediately display it with an appropriate viewer.  For  
example, `C-c C-e b' should open your browser.
And `C-c C-e d' should produce a PDF file and open it with a PDF  
viewer (not sure if this did work in the quite old version of Org-mode  
you have).
If immediate opening does not work, something funny if going on.  This  
should work.

HTH

- Carsten

On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Gary . wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Xin Shi wrote:
>>
>>> I had a similar request before but never get solved. I support this
>>> request.
>>
>> (setq org-export-kill-product-buffer-when-displayed t)
>>
>> will do this when the exported file is shown immediately, so
>> the buffer will be removed during `C-c C-e b',
>
> Aha!
>
> Err... what exactly does "browse immediately" mean? I am guessing it
> uses the browse-url-browser-function to open the produced page in a
> browser? In my case that points to Firefox, and indeed I can `C-c C-o'
> on a link in a .org file and it opens nicely. Nothing browser-like
> happens if I `C-c C-e b', however...
>
>> but not during `C-c C-e h'
>>
>> I guess we could have a variable that always removes the buffer.....
>
> *choke*
>
> Well, not for me. I mean, I *do* want to export and then look at the
> result, hence I don't want the "product buffer" open as well. I just
> wasn't aware of this connection between "browse immediately" and
> killing the product buffer. It doesn't seem that
> org-export-kill-product-buffer-when-displayed exists in the version I
> have, however :-(
>
>
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- Carsten