browse-url-galeon-arguments overridden

[Michael Abraham Shulman]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-12-06 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr 
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib 
--infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes 
--with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:


With browse-url-browser-function set to browse-url-galeon, browse-url
by default loads the url in an existing tab.  This is fine.  I want to
load in a new tab, so I set browse-url-galeon-arguments to ("-n"),
since "galeon -n URL" is the command to load in a new tab, but this
doesn't work: it still loads in an existing tab.

I believe this is because the function browse-url-galeon is hardcoded
to add an "-x" argument (load in existing window) just before the url,
so the command becomes "galeon -n -x URL" and the later argument "-x"
overrides the earlier "-n".

My Galeon is version 1.1.3.  I don't recall having this problem with
Galeon 1.0.2.  Possibly Galeon changed the order of precedence of
conflicting arguments between versions.

Thanks!
~Michael


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