probs with firefox and gnus

probs with firefox and gnus

[Robert D. Crawford]

I am new to the world of gnus (about 1.5 weeks) and I am having a bit of
a problem getting gnus and firefox to work well together.  I found code
on the emacs wiki to open an url in a new tab, but it opens in a new
window instead.  Here is the pertinent info:

Debian sid
Emacs 21.3
Firefox 0.9.1

The function code looks like this on the site:

;; I have added line numbers for reference in this post only
;; I also changed formatting to keep the lines under 
;; 72 characters

1. (defun browse-url-firefox-new-tab (url &optional new-window)
2.  "Open URL in a new tab in Firefox."
3.   (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
4.   (let ((cmd (shell-command-to-string
5.    (concat "~/src/firefox/mozilla-xremote-client -a any 'openURL("
6.	  url ",new-tab)'"))))
7.    (unless (string= "" cmd)
8.     (message "Starting Firefox...")
9.     (start-process (concat "firefox " url) 
        nil "~/src/firefox/firefox" url)
10.    (message "Starting Firefox...done"))))

I changed line 5 to read:

5.  (concat "/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-xremote-client -a
            any 'openURL("

and

5.  (concat "/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-xremote-client
            -a any 'openURL(" 

and 

5.  (concat "/usr/bin/firefox -a firefox -remote
            'openURL("

but none of them seem to work.  I also changed line 9 to reflect the
local path to firefox.  The line in my .emacs that pertains to this
reads:

 '(browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-firefox-new-tab))

I have tried google, but I can't seem to find anything.  What am I
missing here?

Thanks,

rdc

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Re: probs with firefox and gnus

[Gabriel Ebner]

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rdc1x@comcast.net (Robert D. Crawford) writes:

> I hope the formatting on the article is not as screwed up on everyone
> else's screen as it was mine.  If so, I can resend in another way.
> BTW, all the line numbers on my screen are now showing up in the
> middle of the lines (it seems to be reformatted as a paragraph).  Is
> there some way to solve this?

No problems here with Gnus v5.10.6 on Emacs 21.3.1 on debian-amd64.

   Gabriel.

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Re: probs with firefox and gnus

[Robert D. Crawford]

Gabriel Ebner <ge@gabrielebner.at> writes:

> rdc1x@comcast.net (Robert D. Crawford) writes:
> 
> > I hope the formatting on the article is not as screwed up on everyone
> > else's screen as it was mine.  
> 
> No problems here with Gnus v5.10.6 on Emacs 21.3.1 on debian-amd64.
> 
>    Gabriel.

I had the variable set:

(setq gnus-treat-fill-article t)

which was causing the problem.  Also on this topic, I had tried:

(setq gnus-treat-fill-long-lines t)

and it screws stuff up too.  I hate having messages span across the
whole screen.

rdc

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