RE: [h-e-w] gnuclientw.exe

[Sprenger, Karel]

Hi,

I had trouble with the expansion of %1 in NT4 and used %L (which
expanded to the long file name).  Under W2K %1 expands to the long file
name.  Be sure to enclose either %1 or %L in double quotes in the
registry entry.  The same holds for file type associations.  

Just experimented with IE 5.5 in W2K and found that the following
settings work with gnuclient and emacs 21.1:

-----8<-----
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\Edit\command]
@="C:\\emacs\\bin\\gnuclientw.exe -q -F \"%1\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default HTML
Editor\shell\edit\command]
@="C:\\emacs\\bin\\gnuclientw.exe -q -F \"%1\""
-----8<-----

The key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View
Source Editor\Editor Name] seems to accept a single file name only.
Parameters and things like "%1" confuse IE and cause it to complain (and
start up Notepad).

It certainly is puzzling.

Cheers,
Karel

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Rancier [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: woensdag 23 januari 2002 15:59
To: Jason Rumney
Cc: Emacs Help (Windows)
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] gnuclientw.exe


Thanks for all your comments.

If you set [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View
Source Editor\Editor Name] to gnuclientw.exe (with the full path), and
try
to view the source of a web page, e.g., http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/,
IE
places the file in something like this:

C:\Documents and Settings\jrancier\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\GD2VWD2V\javafaq[1]

What happens is you get a bunch of new files open, which have names
like:

c:/Documents
c:/Documents and
Settings/jrancier/Desktop/Files/Content.IE5/gd2vwd2v/javafaq[1]
c:/Documents and Settings/jrancier/Desktop/Internet
c:/Documents and Settings/jrancier/Desktop/Settings/Temporary
c:/Documents and Settings/jrancier/Desktop/Settings/jrancier/Local
c:/Documents and Settings/jrancier/Desktop/and

(notice how they were placed on the desktop, and of course they were all
zero in length).

OK, time to message around with MS-DOS.  Change gnuclientw.exe to
gnuc.bat
or something, which contains code like this:

@echo off
set parms=%1
if %1junk == junk goto DONE
shift

:DO_IT_AGAIN
if %1junk == junk goto DONE
set parms=%parms% %1
shift
goto DO_IT_AGAIN

:DONE
h:\usr\pkg\emacs-20.7\bin\gnuclientw.exe "%parms%"

This concatenates all the paths into one.

So I do this, and then I get something like this:

h:\usr\pkg\emacs-20.7\bin\gnuclientw.exe "C:\Documents and
Settings\jrancier\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\ZXO47AFO\javafaq[1]"

Got it, but in text mode.

Now to try Jason's suggestion, I get something like:

h:\bin\gnudoit.exe -q "(find-file \"C:\Documents and
Settings\jrancier\Local
Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ZXO47AFO\javafaq[1]\")"
"(html-helper-mode)"

Which results in:

    error in process filter: Invalid escape character syntax.

I'm sure it's simply a matter of syntax.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Rumney" <address@hidden>
To: "Jeff Rancier" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Emacs Help (Windows)" <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] gnuclientw.exe


| "Jeff Rancier" <address@hidden> writes:
|
| > Hello,
| >
| > I am trying to come up with a way to use NTEmacs as my editor for
viewing
| > html source from IE 5.X.  I'm almost there, but I need to know if
there
is
| > an argument I can supply to gnuclient.exe to tell it to change to
| > html-helper-mode.  Is that possible?
|
| Use gnudoit if you want to execute arbitrary lisp. gnuclient is just
| for loading files.
|
| Something like the following should work:
|
|   gnudoit -q "(find-file \"%1\")" "(html-helper-mode)"
|
|
|
| --
| Jason Rumney
|