Re: browse-url

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com> writes:
>
>>   Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>>   > How can I arrange things so that I get the clicked url in a mozilla
>>   > tab?
>>
>> Probably not much use to you but in XEmacs' browse-url.el there is
>> `browse-url-mozilla-new-window-is-tab'. 
>
> Yeah, probably not.  But I think someone here will have code to do it
> in fsf emacs ... hasn't been much activity here for day or two.

I don't see that variable in my version of browse-url.  Here's what I
use in emacs:

(if window-system
    (setq browse-url-browser-function 'jh:browse-url-mozilla-new-tab)
  (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-w3))

; From Jesper Harder
(defun jh:browse-url-mozilla-new-tab (url &optional new-window)
  ;; new-window ignored
  "Open URL in a new tab in Mozilla."
  (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
  (unless
      (string= "" 
	       (shell-command-to-string 
		(concat "mozilla -remote 'openURL(" url ",new-tab)'")))
    (message "Starting Mozilla...")
    (start-process (concat "mozilla " url) nil "mozilla" url)
    (message "Starting Mozilla...done")))

Dan