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How to preview buffer with HTML in eww/browser? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by josior@alien.top to c/emacs@communick.news
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I know I can use M-x browse-url-of-buffer to create a temp file and render it on my default browser. But how could I render it with eww?

I tried the function suggested here, but I get the error message that says:

eww-display-html: Buffer nil doesn’t exist

The use case is the following:

  1. Export org as HTML (to a temp buffer);
  2. Render the HTML to a browser, my default browser or eww.

Any suggestions?

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[–] habamax@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try this:

(eww-display-html 'utf-8 (buffer-name) nil (point-min) (current-buffer))

https://asciinema.org/a/bg4bmSYDhVwvZdLcwb9zmofOI

[–] josior@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

[–] Expensive_Pain@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always used (shr-render-buffer (current-buffer)). I don't know the differences from eww-display-html, but one is that it pops up a buffer named *html* and renders it there.

[–] josior@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks!