Re: html browser preview help

[Xah Lee]

On Sep 6, 2:22 am, rpd <rich...@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Drew
>
> Thanks for your reply.
> (I am trying to preview a local .html file in my Internet Explorer browser)
>
> I do not understand this > 'M-: < command you give?
> When I try this (& combinations of) in the minibuffer I get 'no-match'
>
> Is that really the command? (I did an internet search for it & couldn't find
> it).
>
> Anyway I have not been able to try this yet as I cannot enter the command:
>
> `M-: (w32-shell-execute nil "c:/my/file.htm")'
>
> Can you please explain/clarify this for me?
> Many thanks, regards

The “M-:” is emacs notation for the keyboard shortcut “Alt+:”.

So, it means, press Alt, press “:”, then type “(w32-shell-execute nil
"c:/my/file.htm")'”

This is a frequent confusion point for emacs. See:

• Emacs's M-‹key› Notation vs Alt+‹key› Notation
  http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_meta_key.html

  Xah
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