How to open files in web browsers (e.g Firefox) within editors like vim or emacs?
browse-url-of-file is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `browse-url.el'.
It is bound to <menu-bar> <HTML> <Load this Buffer in Browser>, C-c
C-z v.
(browse-url-of-file &optional file)Ask a WWW browser to display file.
Display the current buffer's file if file is nil or if called interactively. Turn the filename into a URL with functionbrowse-url-file-url. Pass the URL to a browser using thebrowse-urlfunction then runbrowse-url-of-file-hook.
For whatever reason, my EmacsW32 on WinXP install kept sending browse-url directives to shell with "open file:// alone, and that didn't work so well*. Cutting it off at the knees, and modifying justin's original as below worked for me:
(defun open-in-browser()
"open buffer in browser, unless it is not a file. Then fail silently (ouch)."
(interactive)
(if (buffer-file-name)
(let ((filename (buffer-file-name)))
(shell-command (concat "start firefox.exe \"file://" filename "\"")))))
Needs some improvement. As well as replacement of your favorite browser. d**n you, hard-coding.
* I think the problem was the system-type check in browse-url-default-windows-browser, but not positive.
In emacs I don't think this is built in, I may be wrong, but if not here is a function to do it:
(defun open-in-browser()
(interactive)
(let ((filename (buffer-file-name)))
(browse-url (concat "file://" filename))))