Re: browse-url

[Hugh Lawson <hlawson@triad.rr.com>]

Greg Novak <novak@ucolick.org> writes:

> * Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > Both of these functions appear to require starting a new firefox. (??)
> 
> By a cosmic coincidence I just put the following in my .emacs file,
> which opens a page in a new tab using an existing Firefox.  
> 
> (defun browse-url-firefox (url &optional new-window)
>   (shell-command (concat "/usr/local/firefox/mozilla-xremote-client \"openurl("
> 		 url
> 		 ",new-tab)\"")))
> 
> (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-firefox)

This works for me too, just as Greg says, after customizing for my
paths.  It works like this.

        here's an url www.linux.org

        Put point on url, and do 'M-x browse-url'

        This puts in minibuffer: "URL: http://www.linux.org"

        <enter> makes the url open in a new tab in firefox

        But if I just type in the minibuffer "www.linux.org", it
        doesn't work. I have to type in the full
        '"http://www.linux.org".


Thanks for all the help everybody.

-- 
Hugh Lawson
hlawson@triad.rr.com