Re: [O] Firefox 36 and Links
Mail von Scott Randby, Thu, 26 Feb 2015 at 17:23:56 -0500: Hello, I know this isn't exactly a question about org, but it affects org, so I'm hoping someone on this list might be willing to help me. The -remote command line option has been removed from Firefox 36: I ran in the same problem on linux. I can't get the patch to work with Emacs 24.3 or 24.2. This could be due to my very poor knowledge of elisp or that the patch isn't compatible with those versions of Emacs. I worked around it with a little elisp: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (use-package browse-url :if running-linux :init (progn (let ((str (shell-command-to-string firefox -v))) (when (and (string-match Mozilla Firefox \\([0-9]+\\)\\.[0-9]+ str) (= (string-to-number (match-string 1 str)) 36)) (advice-add 'browse-url-firefox :around 'browse-url-firefox-version-36) (message Advice added for `browse-url-firefox' to call firefox = v36) )) ) :config (progn (defun browse-url-firefox-version-36 (orig-fun url optional new-window) Linux version of firefox (=v36.0) does not know the command \-remote openURL(...)\. So act in linux as on windows and give just the requested URL as command line parameter. (let ((system-type 'windows-nt)) (apply orig-fun url new-window))) ) ) #+END_SRC If you're not using use-package then the following minimal code will suffice: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (require 'browse-url) (advice-add 'browse-url-firefox :around 'browse-url-firefox-version-36) (defun browse-url-firefox-version-36 (orig-fun url optional new-window) Linux version of firefox (=v36.0) does not know the command \-remote openURL(...)\. So act in linux as on windows and give just the requested URL as command line parameter. (let ((system-type 'windows-nt)) (apply orig-fun url new-window))) #+END_SRC With kinde regards, Stefan -- Stefan-W. Hahn It is easy to make things. It is hard to make things simple.
[O] Firefox 36 and Links
I know this isn't exactly a question about org, but it affects org, so I'm hoping someone on this list might be willing to help me. The -remote command line option has been removed from Firefox 36: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-remote_remote_command As a result, web links in an org file no longer open in Firefox when I click on them. This is mentioned as a comment at the following link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080319#c19 I found a patch here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/99694 I can't get the patch to work with Emacs 24.3 or 24.2. This could be due to my very poor knowledge of elisp or that the patch isn't compatible with those versions of Emacs. I see that the patch has been put into 24.5, but I'd prefer to use a stable version of Emacs. I'm confused about how to proceed. Should I wait for the next stable release of Emacs, or is there a solution I can use now? Scott Randby
Re: [O] Firefox 36 and Links
On 02/26/2015 06:33 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: Nick Dokos ndo...@gmail.com writes: Scott Randby sran...@gmail.com writes: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/99694 I can't get the patch to work with Emacs 24.3 or 24.2. This could be due to my very poor knowledge of elisp or that the patch isn't compatible with those versions of Emacs. Oh, it's probably that gmane replaces @ signs with at to confuse stupid address harvesters (which it will probably do to this message as well :) ). Try getting the patch from the emacs bug mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2015-02/msg00751.html ... and if whitespace is a problem, try ignoring it: patch -p1 -l browse-url.patch or git apply --ignore-whitespace browse-url.patch worked for me on 24.3. I'm sorry, it appears that I don't have enough knowledge to do this correctly. I've been meaning to learn how to work with git, but I haven't been able to find the time to learn it. I don't install Emacs from git, so I'll just wait until the next version that fixes the problem comes out.
Re: [O] Firefox 36 and Links
Scott Randby sran...@gmail.com writes: ... I found a patch here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/99694 I can't get the patch to work with Emacs 24.3 or 24.2. This could be due to my very poor knowledge of elisp or that the patch isn't compatible with those versions of Emacs. Does the patch not apply cleanly? Or it does, but the resulting function does not work as expected? How exactly is it broken? Nick
Re: [O] Firefox 36 and Links
Nick Dokos ndo...@gmail.com writes: Scott Randby sran...@gmail.com writes: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/99694 I can't get the patch to work with Emacs 24.3 or 24.2. This could be due to my very poor knowledge of elisp or that the patch isn't compatible with those versions of Emacs. Oh, it's probably that gmane replaces @ signs with at to confuse stupid address harvesters (which it will probably do to this message as well :) ). Try getting the patch from the emacs bug mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2015-02/msg00751.html ... and if whitespace is a problem, try ignoring it: patch -p1 -l browse-url.patch or git apply --ignore-whitespace browse-url.patch worked for me on 24.3.
