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
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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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