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Org-mode can export as HTML and open on a browser with C-c C-e h o (org-export-dispatch), but the problem is that the generated html file opens in a buffer inside emacs. There is no error in the message buffer, either. How can I make it work?
When I click a link inside org-mode, the browser opens correctly.
I'm running org-mode 8.2.10, emacs 24.3.1 on manjaro linux 0.8.10. I checked preferred applications in KDE and it points web browsing to firefox.
I experienced the same problem after a new installation of ArchLinux with XFCE.
Although I didn't manage to understand the problem, a workaround was to configure 'org-file-apps' as described in the FAQ :
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#external-application-launched-to-open-file-link
in my .emacs.d/init.el, I have now :
'(org-file-apps
(quote
((auto-mode . emacs)
("\\.mm\\'" . default)
("\\.x?html?\\'" . "/usr/bin/firefox %s")
("\\.pdf\\'" . default))))
(setq browse-url-generic-program
(cond
((eq window-system 'mac) "open") ; mac
((or (eq system-type 'gnu/linux) (eq system-type 'linux)) ; linux
(executable-find "firefox"))
))
emacs --version
GNU Emacs 25.1.1
It works for me:
(setq org-file-apps
(quote
((auto-mode . emacs)
("\\.mm\\'" . default)
("\\.x?html?\\'" . "/usr/bin/firefox %s")
("\\.pdf\\'" . default))))
REF from answer of @skizo
As documented on Worg (and mentioned in other answers), org-mode usesorg-file-apps to determine how to open files. Moreover, org-file-apps can call emacs functions instead of specifying external applications. Especially for opening stuff in the web-browser, emacs ships with the browse-url package. This package provides a lot of functions to call a lot of different browsers (most of them are not really used anymore), and M-x customize-group Enter browse-url can help to give an overview.
When browse-url is configured correctly, then the function browse-url will open a new browser (or a tab in an already running browser). This can be leveraged in org-file-apps:
(setq org-file-apps
(quote
(
("\\.x?html?\\'" . browse-url)
)
)
)
This configuration is more portable then specifying exact paths, and it also allows to have a different entry in the .mailcap, which org-mode normally uses if nothing is defined in org-file-apps.
I suspect that you have a mixed installation of org-mode. See the FAQ here:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#mixed-install
When this has happened to me what I have done is (assuming you install via ELPA):
emacs -q("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/") to package-archives and run (package-initialize) `Hope that helps.
org-version gives good result (as in your link). Bad luck.
Oct 21, 2014 at 1:36
org-export-as-html-and-open, the answer is No match, so it seems that function is not well installed.
Oct 21, 2014 at 1:38
org-open-file, which uses the variable org-file-apps. Perhaps you have something strange in that variable. org-export-as-html-and-open is not a function in recent org mode versions.
Oct 21, 2014 at 4:34
C-c C-e b?bafter C-c C-e. It givesInvalid keyM-x org-export-as-html-and-open?org-html-do-expand: Symbol's value as variable is void: org-export-html-special-string-regexpsC-c C-e h hBut, I am not 100% sure that will work.