Re: Refreshing Firefox window from within Emacs?

[Kevin Rodgers]

ken wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:32:49 -0500 ken <gebser@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
>
> > ....  The dunces among us (e.g., see Sender field) ....
>
>
> Well, that didn't say what I wanted it to say.  It seems that the
> mailing list software changed my Sender field (should have guessed it
> would), so let me amend the above to "see From field".  
>
>
> Back to the original issue: Refreshing a browser window from within
> emacs.  
>
> When I run "M-x browse-url-of-file" I get an error message in the
> minibuffer saying "Searching for program: no such file or directory,
> netscape".  This is logical because I'm using Firefox and not
> netscape. So the obvious next step is to alter how browse-url-of-file
> works.  So I figured out that this command from the CLI works:
>
> mozilla -a firefox -remote 'openURL(http://www.domain.tld/file.html)'
>
> The problem comes when I use Customize in emacs to put in this command.
> Trying to do so, Customize gives me the error "Invalid function:
> mozilla".  It seems it's looking for an elisp expression, something I
> have no clue as to how to compose.

No, as its doc string states, the value of browse-url-browser-function
is a function (see the "What Is a Function" node in the Emacs Lisp
manual).

I think Emacs 22 (aka CVS Emacs) defines the browse-url-firefox and
browse-url-mozilla functions, which would serve as useful values for
you.  Or you probably could find one of them on the web; try
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BrowseUrl

But you might be able to get browse-url-netscape to work for you by
tweaking a couple of variables:

(setq browse-url-netscape-program "mozilla")
(setq browse-url-netscape-arguments '("-a" "firefox"))

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Kevin

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Kevin Rodgers