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Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process
From: |
Dieter Wilhelm |
Subject: |
Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:16:35 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:
> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>> I'd like to be able to open a windows (on XP) compiled help file
>> (.chm). It works well with `shell-process' in just giving the shell
>> the .chm file as argument. But I can't get it to run with
>> start-process. Probably I need to call a viewer for this file. I
>> googled around and found that the internet explorer is supposed to
>> act as "viewer" for these help files. The next hurdle is where to
>> find the executable, I can't find iexplorer.exe or iexplore.exe on
>> my disk.
>
> Have you tried using `w32-shell-execute'?
>
> (w32-shell-execute "Open" "blabla.chm")
Exactly what I needed, works perfect, thank you.
Sad that these functions are not mentioned in the Emacs manual for
(emacs)Windows Processes. I'm coding mostly under Linux and the w32-*
functions are not available when trying `describe-function'.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
- problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process, Dieter Wilhelm, 2006/11/28
- Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process, Mathias Dahl, 2006/11/29
- Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process,
Dieter Wilhelm <=
- Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process, Lennart Borgman, 2006/11/29
- Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/29
- cvs best practise [was: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process], Dieter Wilhelm, 2006/11/30
- Re: cvs best practise [was: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process], Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/30
- Re: cvs best practise, Dieter Wilhelm, 2006/11/30