'No useful browser' when trying to use fymd on MacOS

[joaquinlpereyra-ml]

Description :octocat:

'No useful browser' when trying to use fymd on MacOS

Reproduction guide :beetle:

• Start Emacs on MacOs
• Set up 'chrome' layer and 'markdown' layer
• Try to use flymd when on a markdown file

Observed behaviour: :eyes: :broken_heart: No useful broswer displayed, even when I set up an alias on .zprofile to point 'google-chrome-stable' to the specific binary on mac os.

Expected behaviour: :heart: :smile: A real-time preview of the markdown would open with support for Github flavored markdown :)

System Info :computer:

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 25.2.1
• Spacemacs: 0.200.9
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 8e1af14)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(html python helm java auto-completion osx emacs-lisp git
      (markdown :variables markdown-live-preview-engine 'vmd)
      org chrome spell-checking syntax-checking)

• System configuration features: JPEG NOTIFY ACL LIBXML2 TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS

[JAremko]

Hmm might be a bug @syl20bnr my-flymd-browser-function probably needs MacOs option. :thinking:

[vv111y]

Same here

[JAremko]

@vv111y can you plz SPC h I here ?

[youqad]

Same here :-(

@JAremko Here is mine:

Description :octocat:

'No useful browser' when trying to use fymd on MacOS Sierra

Reproduction guide :beetle:

• Start Emacs
• Set up 'chrome' layer and 'markdown' layer
• Try to use flymd (SPC a F) on a markdown file

Observed behaviour: :eyes: :broken_heart: Error : "No useful broswer displayed", and nothing shows up :-( (even though I have chrome and chromium installed (with homebrew))

Expected behaviour: :heart: :smile: A real-time preview of the markdown file should open in Chrome/Chromium :-)

System Info :computer:

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 25.2.1
• Spacemacs: 0.200.9
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 8e1af14)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(python ocaml haskell agda html helm auto-completion better-defaults emacs-lisp git
        (markdown :variables markdown-live-preview-engine 'vmd)
        (spell-checking :variables spell-checking-enable-auto-dictionary t spell-checking-enable-by-default t enable-flyspell-auto-completion t)
        (syntax-checking :variables syntax-checking-enable-tooltips t syntax-checking-enable-by-default t)
        coq javascript
        (osx :variables osx-use-option-as-meta nil)
        c-c++ themes-megapack latex graphviz csv ipython-notebook version-control
        (colors :variables colors-colorize-identifiers 'all colors-enable-nyan-cat-progress-bar nil)
        xkcd bibtex deft pandoc chrome)

• System configuration features: NOTIFY ACL LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS

[vv111y]

Sorry @JAremko ! I knew there was a response to do and I couldn't find it, this got lost. Below is mine (thanks @youqad for responding).

System Info :computer:

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 25.2.1
• Spacemacs: 0.200.9
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. ebc6ba01)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(csv
 (auto-completion :variables auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip t auto-completion-enable-sort-by-usage t)
 ansible better-defaults bibtex chrome clojure command-log common-lisp cscope deft docker emacs-lisp erc ess fasd finance git github go haskell html ibuffer imenu-list ipython-notebook java javascript
 (latex :variables latex-enable-folding t latex-enable-auto-fill t latex-build-command "LatexMk")
 lua
 (markdown :variables markdown-live-preview-engine 'vmd)
 nim
 (osx :variables osx-use-option-as-meta t)
 (org :variables org-enable-github-support t org-enable-reveal-js-support t org-enable-bootstrap-support t org-startup-indented t org-startup-folded t)
 pandoc pdf-tools php python ranger scala search-engine
 (spell-checking :variables spell-checking-enable-by-default nil)
 sql syntax-checking
 (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'right)
 themes-megapack tmux vagrant version-control zotero)

• System configuration features: JPEG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES

[longlinht]

System Info :computer:

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 25.2.1
• Spacemacs: 0.200.9
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 8e1af145)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(auto-completion better-defaults c-c++ gtags cscope python java emacs-lisp git markdown org
                 (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
                 syntax-checking version-control html javascript chrome)

• System configuration features: JPEG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES

I also face same problem!

[tripplilley]

As a workaround, in your spacemacs layers config, you can set the chrome-exec-path layer variable:

(chrome :variables chrome-exec-path "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome")

(assuming you're using a standard install of Google Chrome)

...but you'll then run into the issue described in the flymd docs: https://github.com/mola-T/flymd/blob/master/browser.md .

[longlinht]

@tripplilley , thank you, it works.

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[swapnilsm]

+1

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[akumria]

I think having flymd as part of chrome is the real problem here; it is really related to Markdown.

Ideally flymd would be part of the markdown layer, and on MacOS it would default to calling the function browse-url-default-macosx-browser which seems to do the right thing.

[akumria]

No, I tell a lie. Because the file is on the local filesystem, browse-url-default-macosx-browser does not work.

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