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From: Hugh Lawson <hlawson@triad.rr.com>
Subject: Re: browse-url
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:47:02 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ekdm1w63.fsf@desktop.xx.yy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: of8y3vj5fm.fsf@daphne.ted.ericsson.se

Christian Lynbech <christian.lynbech@ericsson.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Joe" == Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:
> 
> Joe> Well, I don't know what's different out our environments, but for me,
> Joe> evaluating
> 
> Joe> (progn (call-process "firefox" nil 0 nil "http://www.gnu.org")
> Joe>        (call-process "firefox" nil 0 nil "http://www.google.com"))
> 
> Joe> gives me one firefox window browsing gnu.org, and one of those idiot
> Joe> boxes that I hate telling me to choose a new user (i.e. if no firefox
> Joe> window is open; if a window is open, 2 X idiot box).
> 
> It appears that Hugh Lawson is running Debian and here /usr/bin/firefox points
> to a ~400 line script that presumably examines the current situation and does
> the right thing. Possibly, when you call "firefox" you get directly to the
> application executable which only works as desired the first time.


I'm running Debian sarge, but Joe's elisp function works fine on my
system.

-- 
Hugh Lawson
hlawson@triad.rr.com

      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-01  0:06 browse-url Hugh Lawson
2005-04-01  0:23 ` browse-url David Kastrup
2005-04-01  7:16   ` browse-url nfreimann
2005-04-01  9:37     ` browse-url David Kastrup
2005-04-04  0:02   ` browse-url Hugh Lawson
2005-04-04  0:31     ` browse-url David Kastrup
2005-04-05  0:36       ` browse-url Hugh Lawson
2005-04-05  1:29         ` browse-url David Kastrup
2005-04-05  2:30           ` browse-url Hugh Lawson
2005-04-05  4:28             ` browse-url Joe Corneli
2005-04-05  9:19               ` browse-url Greg Novak
2005-04-05 19:57                 ` browse-url Joe Corneli
     [not found]               ` <mailman.182.1112692644.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-07 18:12                 ` browse-url Hugh Lawson
     [not found]             ` <mailman.152.1112673857.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-05  8:20               ` browse-url Hugh Lawson
2005-04-05  9:11                 ` browse-url Joe Corneli
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.179.1112690775.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-05 13:07                   ` browse-url Hugh Lawson
2005-04-05 13:43                     ` browse-url Hugh Lawson
2005-04-07  9:34                   ` browse-url Christian Lynbech
2005-04-07 14:47                     ` Hugh Lawson [this message]

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