From: Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@post.rwth-aachen.de>
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 19:05:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsfs7fzi.fsf@post.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2283.1225215552.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>>>> "Corey" == Corey Foote <coreyfoote@hotmail.com> writes:
Corey> Is there a way to embed external application (such as firefox) inside
Corey> an Emacs buffer and use Emacs to control them? If not, would it be
Corey> possible to simply send an external application (again like firefox)
Corey> a command from within emacs without it being embedded. For example,
Corey> say I was working on an HTML page in emacs and wanted to preview my
Corey> changes by refreshing the page in firefox. I would just like to be
Corey> able to say something like M-x refresh-firefox, and not have to click
Corey> over to the firefox window to his refresh myself. What would be
Corey> required to add this feature?
Corey>
Hi,
I don't think your first scenario is possible, but here I'm way out of my
depth. Just guessing because I don't know of any other "embedded" app.
Case two is possible.
You could look up "browse-url" in the emacs manual: Commands for interaction
with a browser.
But Emacs is able to start (a)synchronous subprocesses with or without a shell,
so calling another app with the current file-name as option should be
possible. All this is documented in the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. Search
for `start-process'.
Hope this helps
Toto
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2008-10-28 18:05 ` Thorsten Bonow [this message]
2008-10-28 18:13 ` Embedding external application in emacs (or using emacs to control exeternal application) 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
2008-10-28 17:32 Corey Foote
2008-10-28 17:12 ` Toby Cubitt
2008-10-28 17:59 ` Drew Adams
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