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Re: browse-url


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: browse-url
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:23:06 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Hugh Lawson <hlawson@triad.rr.com> writes:

> Debian sarge
> Emacs 21.4.1
>
> browse-url works fine if firefox is already running. 
>
> But suppose firefox isn't running.
>
> If I do 'M-x browse-url' and fill in the url, then firefox pops up for
> a second and then disappears.  The same thing happens with links I
> click on in Emacs.
>
> I think I can imagine a shell script to deal with this, but surely
> there is something alread in Emacs.

The definition of browse-url-generic in browse-url.el needs to get
replaced with:

(defun browse-url-generic (url &optional new-window)
  ;; new-window ignored
  "Ask the WWW browser defined by `browse-url-generic-program' to load URL.
Default to the URL around or before point.  A fresh copy of the
browser is started up in a new process with possible additional arguments
`browse-url-generic-args'.  This is appropriate for browsers which
don't offer a form of remote control."
  (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
  (if (not browse-url-generic-program)
    (error "No browser defined (`browse-url-generic-program')"))
  (apply 'call-process browse-url-generic-program nil
         0 nil
         (append browse-url-generic-args (list url))))


-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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