David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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))))
Hello David, I don't understand how this solves my problem. If mozilla-firefox is open and running. all is well. If it isn't then there is a problem. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
