From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Embedding external application in emacs (or using emacs to control exeternal application) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:24:28 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87fxmf50er.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225266118 12073 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2008 07:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:41:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 08:43:00 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kv5hh-0002D2-8V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:42:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38471 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kv5gb-0001LB-1m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:41:49 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tgeQRpGf/ip6MEUTnHcDR1IyWgk= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 29d25701.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=`:C32Rj4AL>CObSL`Ra@h6L?0kYOcDh@:L_M`JAI; G@=c:EB@R\UFd?GnMf7R`bAU>l; Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163887 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:59228 Archived-At: Corey Foote writes: > 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? > There is a firefox package called mozlab that has an emacs interface. This allows you to interact with firefox via a REPL where you can perform various operations. may be of use for what you want. Tim > -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au