Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This is why you need an Elisp function that will use call-process >> instead of start-process for starting Firefox if it is supposed to >> survive detaching. > > Thanks for the explanation, David. I had trouble making it work, so >as a trial, I added the following two functions to my ~/.emacs file. > > Please critique. I did this purely empirically, with no real > understanding. > > > > (defun browse-url-firefox (url &optional new-window ) > ;;new-window ignored > "Ask the firefox browser to load URL." > (apply 'call-process "firefox" nil > 0 nil (list url)))
Well, looks a bit more complicated than necessary. It should be sufficient to write something like (defun browse-url-firefox (url &optional new-window) (call-process "firefox" nil 0 nil url)) However, this should be quite equivalent to what you wrote, so if you are experiencing problems, you'll need to describe them in more detail to make it possible to guess what might be amiss. At least in my opinion, what you wrote looks like it should work. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
