Runnning conkeror on dired file

[Haines Brown]

I frequently run various applications such as geeqie and abiword on a
dired item simply by doing: ! <application>. However, this does not
work if I run a browser command on an HTML file selected in dired such
as

! conkeror

Conqeror opens, but it does not display the file content. Neither does
firefox. Is there any way to run a browser on an HTML file selected in
dired other than w3m?

Haines Brown

[Martin]

Post by Haines Brown
I frequently run various applications such as geeqie and abiword on a
dired item simply by doing: ! <application>. However, this does not
work if I run a browser command on an HTML file selected in dired such
as
! conkeror
Conqeror opens, but it does not display the file content. Neither does
firefox. Is there any way to run a browser on an HTML file selected in
dired other than w3m?
Haines Brown

Hi,

on Windows I use the command

dired-w32-browser from w32-browser.el

Martin

[Haines Brown]

Post by Martin

Is there any way to run a browser on an HTML file selected in dired
other than w3m?
Haines Brown

Hi,
on Windows I use the command
dired-w32-browser from w32-browser.el
Martin

I now discover that the problem apparently does not lie with emacs but
with Conkeror. I now realize that if I run the command "! firefox" on an
HTML file listed by dired, the file is nicely displayed in an instance
of firefox. If the dired file is a .png, I have no problem running "!
geeqie" to display it. Howeve, a "! conqueror" comand does not display
the file in a running instance of conqueror but opens a new instance
that does not display the HTML file and is blank.

So the problem lies in Conkeror's coding rather than with
emacs. Unfortunately, the Conkeror list where I could raise the issue
seems to have died last month.

Haines