Re: probs with firefox and gnus

[Xning Lee]

1. update-alvernatives
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Debian dpkg utilities, maintain symbolic links determining default
commands


2. .emacs
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'(browse-url-browser-function 
  (quote
   
(("\\(ftp:\\)\\(//[-a-zA-Z0-9_.]+:[0-9]*\\)?[-a-zA-Z0-9_=!?#$@~`%&*+\\/:;.,]+[-a-zA-Z0-9_=#$@~`%&*+\\/]"
 . my-download) 
    ("." . my-browser))))


3. function: my-browser
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(defun my-browser (url &optional new-window)
  "Open URL in a new tab in Mozilla."
  (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
  (when
      (string-match ".*No running window found.*" 
                    (shell-command-to-string 
                     (concat "mozilla -remote 'openurl(" url ",new-tab)'")))
    (message "Starting Mozilla...")
    (start-process (concat "mozilla " url) nil
                   "/bin/sh" "-c" (concat "mozilla " url "|| true"))
    (message "Starting Mozilla...done")))