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I read this post but I have a little problem with the following code (I am using Emacs 24.3 and Cygwin and I don't know Lisp):

(defun open-in-browser()
  "Open buffer in browser, unless it is not a file. Then fail silently (ouch)."
  (interactive)
  (if (buffer-file-name)
      (let ((filename (buffer-file-name)))
        (shell-command (concat "start firefox.exe \"file://" filename "\"")))))

My shell-command is bash. I changed the last line to

(shell-command (concat "cygstart d:/program/fox/firefox.exe ...

  • Opening d:/documents/test.html works well.

  • Opening d:/documents/my notes/test.html does not work. I get the following error in Firefox:

    Can not find file d:/documents/my

I think bash is missing the space in my notes. How can I fix it?

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emacs buffer file open ex) d:/documents/test.html ;;work good emacs buffer file open ex) d:/documents/my notes/test.html ;;not work

It's failing because of the whitespace. You can read a good description of how Bash interprets whitespace here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/108663/84118

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In the shell command, change filename to (shell-quote-argument filename)

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