Re: Viewer for html files

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 2/11/2020 6:26 PM, Thomas George wrote:
> Obviously I can view html files with any of the browsers. It is not
> always convenient. If I save an interesting web page by right clicking
> on save as the result is a often a very long file name containing
> spaces. I save these html files in various directories according to
> subject. if I subsequently want to view the file I must type something like
>
> file:///home/user/directory/long file name.html
>
> My browsers have no auto-complete and do not like file names with
> included spaces.
>
> The solution, of course, to rename the file as foo.html
>
> It would be nice to have an html viewer which opens a file in the
> current directory with auto-completion of the initial word of the filename.
>
> Is there such a thing?
>

$ python3 -m http.server

then point your browser to localhost:8000


Also, you could make firefox open the file when you click on it.

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John Doe