msg2pdf or view-in-browser cygwin emacs/mu4e

[thirdsh...@gmail.com]

Hi-

I used to invoke emacs from mintty in cygwin. Now I added emacs-w32 package. Is

there a way I can add a symlink so the non minty version can find my

paths in my emacs config file that are posix like?

The reason I am trying is as many know pdf needs javascript turned off

for security.

Then if I want to use msg2pdf  OR view in browser in emacs I thought about running pdf viewer in

windows in a containter.

When I try to do Alt+X mu4e-view-action with lower case v it can't find

the path to msg2pdf if I am not running minty emacs that is more posix

friendly.

I think I can configure that pdf-viewer in windows run in containter by

default. At least that is my hope with comodo.

I doctored the path so you could see the problem in the url after running V for view in browser:

file:///cygdrive/c/cygwin64/tmp/mu4e-4212p70.html

I need cygwin to look there:

The actual path that comes up in the browser is this and windows doesn't

recognize this:

file:///tmp/mu4e-4212p70.html

That temporary html file is nowhere to be found even by using file explorer in windows. I am not 

sure why the temporary file is listed in the browser after running that event but not found on

my C: drive after a windows search and inspection looking for the file.

So, I guess, does anyone have luck running msg2pdf or view in browser in emacs with cygwin?

The emacs-w32 extra package in cygwin knows how to run the basic mu4e but any of these extra

programs tied to lisp events are failing (msg2pdf | text to html )

thx. -

Jim McNamara

[thirdsh...@gmail.com]

Hi all-

I have good news to report.

Yes, it will run in comodo containter automatically.

I found what I need:

Alt+X browse-url-of-browser is the command to launch the buffer in html in my browser.

I just need to customize it so that the file path is right in the browser.

Unfortunately that takes lisp and I don't know any.

I will try to hack my way to a solution the extra mile using google.

So this is kind of cool. I can turn of javascript for pdf AND launch my html email in the comodo container with emacs in cygwin.

thx. -

Jim McNamara

[thirdsh...@gmail.com]

Hi all-

Here is the website I am getting my hack from:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseUrl

I am on the cusp of cobbling a solution without knowing lisp. I can't seem to add an

extra slash to the file path so it will render when I run:

Alt+X browse-url-of-buffer

(add-to-list 'mu4e-view-actions

  '("ViewInBrowser" . mu4e-action-view-in-browser) t)

  

    (setq browse-url-filename-alist

          '(("/webmaster@webserver:/home/www/html/" .

             "http://www.acme.co.uk/")

            ("^/\(ftp@\|anonymous@\)?\([^:]+\):/*" . "ftp://\2/")

            ("^/\([^:@]+@\)?\([^:]+\):/*" . "ftp://\1\2/")

            ("^/+" . "file:/"))) 

  

  (add-to-list 'browse-url-filename-alist

                 '("/tmp/" . "/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/tmp/"))  

 (setq gnus-button-url 'browse-url-generic

          browse-url-generic-program "/cygdrive/C/Program Files (x86)/Comodo/Dragon/dragon.exe"

          browse-url-browser-function gnus-button-url)

I have it mapped right with /tmp/ but can't add an extra slash to 

//cygdrive/c/cygwin64/tmp/

So this leads to one more question which is that how does :

Alt+X mu4e-view-action know to do V and render it as html?

I mean .... i'm guessing this other trick will render the file as not formatted because

I have not YET set up an html server to render it. I can do that but then it won't run 

in the container for comodo possibly. Not sure. It is some type of converter that the 

command sequence uses. Maybe browse-url-of-buffer has the same converter to 

view as Alt+X view-action-mu4e without pointing an html server to that location?

Please give me trick to add one more slash.

right now in the url it gives:

file://cygdrive/c/cygwin64/tmp/filename.html

thanks-

Jim McNamara

On Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 2:32:17 PM UTC-5, thirdsh...@gmail.com wrote:

[thirdsh...@gmail.com]

Hi again-

I solved it. The order of operations adding it as a list needed to appear first.

So now I can view my html emacs in comdo internet pro 10 secured container

with the browser.

Here is the code:

 (add-to-list 'browse-url-filename-alist

                 '("/tmp/" . "file:///c:\cygwin64\tmp\"))  

  

  

  

    (setq browse-url-filename-alist

          '(("/webmaster@webserver:/home/www/html/" .

             "http://www.acme.co.uk/")

            ("^/\(ftp@\|anonymous@\)?\([^:]+\):/*" . "ftp://\2/")

            ("^/\([^:@]+@\)?\([^:]+\):/*" . "ftp://\1\2/")

            ("^/+" . "file:/"))) 

  

 

 (setq gnus-button-url 'browse-url-generic

          browse-url-generic-program "/cygdrive/C/Program Files (x86)/Comodo/Dragon/dragon.exe"

          browse-url-browser-function gnus-button-url)

Have a very cool rest of the weekend.

thx. -

Jim McNamara

[thirdsh...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 2:32:17 PM UTC-5, thirdsh...@gmail.com wrote: