Re: EWW via TRAMP no working

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

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

I see, still looks promising.  Maybe an EWW luminary will give futher
comments on it before I have time to test it.  Or if it necessary to
write a bug-report and asking for an EWW enhancement or so..

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

Love it, thank you very much for this helpful workaround Michael!

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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany