Re: Help with PHP setup

[Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>]

> On Jul 21, 2018, at 12:53, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>> So we can actually have a function that replaces the path part of
>> the file by a localhost url and run a command that opens that in the
>> default browser.
> 
> Won't that stack up new tabs endlessly?  Or at least every time the
> function runs, which as I understand it would be every time the buffer
> was saved to a file?

That's a possibility. On macOS I can see how some AppleScript glue can help target a given tab or do something similar. I don't know how natively scriptable are browsers on Linux or Windows so a solution targeting a given tab is unlikely to be portable...


>> Nothing icky about it, we just need the correct parameters to put
>> that together.
> 
> As I said, someone will prove that it is possible.  :-)

... knock on wood ...


Jean-Christophe Helary
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