Re: EWW via TRAMP no working

[Michael Albinus]

dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:

> Hello GNU-Emacs-26.3

Hi Dieter,

> We, me and another colleague of mine, are trying to read HTML
> documentation with eww-open-file-via TRAMP located on a remote server.
>
> We are able to open the files with TRAMP, for example:
>
>    /ssh:wawa:/tmp/Hlp_C_FINISH.html
>
> is working, but we are getting the following error message with EWW:
>
>     url-file: File does not exist:
>     file:///ssh:wawa:/tmp/Hlp_C_FINISH.html

This cannot work, because eww doesn't know such a local file
"/ssh:wawa:/tmp/Hlp_C_FINISH.html".

> Is there a workaround to make EWW run with remote files?

There is url-handler-mode, but I doubt that eww cooperates with
it. Something like

(eww-open-file (file-local-copy "/ssh:wawa:/tmp/Hlp_C_FINISH.html"))

seems to work. Maybe you could compose an interactive command around
this snippet.

> Thank you
>
>       Dieter

Best regards, Michael.