Re: browse-url-firefox

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:31:22 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> >           (apply 'start-process
> >                  (concat "firefox " url) nil
> >                  browse-url-firefox-program
> >                  (append
> >                   browse-url-firefox-arguments
> >                   (if (or (featurep 'dos-w32)
> >                           (string-match "win32" system-configuration))
> >                       (list url)
> >                     (list "-remote"
> >                           (concat "openURL("
> >                                   url
> >                                   (if (browse-url-maybe-new-window
> >                                        new-window)
> >                                       (if browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab
> >                                           ",new-tab"
> >                                         ",new-window"))
> >                                   ")")))))))
> >
> > has the effect of invoking Firefox with the URL specified twice on the
> > command line (so Firefox opens it in two tabs).  I think it's a bug,
> > and that the right fix is to not (concat "firefox " url), but to use a
> > literal "firefox" instead.  Does anyone see where I'm wrong?

The second argument to `start-process' is just a name so I can see 
nothing wrong with that it is (concat "firefox " url).

BTW, why are the arguments different on w32? It looks like the other 
path works for w32 too.