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From: Toby Cubitt <tsc25@cantab.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Embedding external application in emacs (or using emacs to control exeternal application)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:12:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49074806.3000504@dr-qubit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU105-W434E5FA7A5F656FEB31504DA270@phx.gbl>

Corey Foote wrote:
> Is there a way to embed external application (such as firefox) inside
> an Emacs buffer and use Emacs to control them? If not, would it be
> possible to simply send an external application (again like firefox)
> a command from within emacs without it being embedded. For example,
> say I was working on an HTML page in emacs and wanted to preview my
> changes by refreshing the page in firefox. I would just like to be
> able to say something like M-x refresh-firefox, and not have to click
> over to the firefox window to his refresh myself. What would be
> required to add this feature?

This doesn't answer your general question, but for getting Firefox to
reload the page you're editing, what about setting the browser tab to
reload every few seconds? There are a number of Firefox extensions that
do that (e.g. Tab Mix Plus).

HTH,

Toby




  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-28 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28 17:32 Embedding external application in emacs (or using emacs to control exeternal application) Corey Foote
2008-10-28 17:12 ` Toby Cubitt [this message]
2008-10-28 17:59 ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.2283.1225215552.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-28 18:05 ` Thorsten Bonow
2008-10-28 18:13   ` Thorsten Bonow
2008-10-28 18:47     ` Allan Gottlieb
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2302.1225219691.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-28 19:13       ` Thorsten Bonow
2008-10-28 18:59   ` Corey Foote
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2304.1225220395.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-28 19:19     ` Thorsten Bonow
2008-10-29  7:24 ` Tim X

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