From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Lynbech Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: browse-url Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:34:53 +0200 Organization: Ericsson Message-ID: References: <877jjn742a.fsf@desktop.xx.yy> <877jjjsbub.fsf@desktop.xx.yy> <87r7hqktbr.fsf@desktop.xx.yy> <87y8byj9gm.fsf@desktop.xx.yy> <87ekdp4rlc.fsf@desktop.xx.yy> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112867049 1296 80.91.229.2 (7 Apr 2005 09:44:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 07 11:44:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJTXn-00083N-DT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:43:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJT73-00051a-VX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 05:15:46 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!erinews.ericsson.se!news.ericsson.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.159.189.28 Original-X-Trace: newstree.wise.edt.ericsson.se 1112866191 4421 213.159.189.28 (7 Apr 2005 09:29:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ericsson.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:29:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129896 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25456 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25456 >>>>> "Joe" == Joe Corneli 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. ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)