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Render current HTML buffer with EWW

From time to time I end up with raw HTML content in an emacs buffer and want to know how it looks or just want to read it properly. Until now either I opened firefox to read that file or I opened it with eww-open-file. The problem is, that sometimes there is no file, the HTML buffer is just the output of some generator or something. In such cases I needed to save the buffer as a file and then re-open it with EWW. Very annoying.

With this simple function the nightmare is over. I just use the EWW internal render function to do the job. That way I can view any HTML in emacs without even saving it to disk.

(require 'eww)

(defun eww-render-current-buffer ()
  "Render HTML in the current buffer with EWW"
  (interactive)
  (beginning-of-buffer)
  (eww-display-html 'utf8 (buffer-name)))

(global-set-key (kbd "<C-c C-e C-w C-w>") 'eww-render-current-buffer)

Now when I'm inside a HTML buffer, I can just render it and take a look with EWW. Very handy!

08.06.2017 11:19

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Render current HTML buffer with EWW

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