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Re: Refreshing Firefox window from within Emacs?


From: Edward Dodge
Subject: Re: Refreshing Firefox window from within Emacs?
Date: 04 Jan 2006 16:29:41 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

batkins57@gmail.com writes:

If the "code" you are speaking of is actually .html, you can simply bind
the following function to a handy key-combination:

browse-url-of-file

Also,  you may have to set your default browser for the "browse-url..."
commands to Firefox in your .emacs.

Edward

> A lot of times I end up writing code in an Emacs window and switching
> to a Firefox window to refresh it and see what happened and then
> switching back.  It would be nice if i could keep my Emacs window in
> front of Firefox and use some keychord to refresh the page in Firefox
> without Emacs losing focus and without having to actually switch to the
> other window.
> 
> Is there any way to do this kind of thing (on X11)?  Firefox provides
> the -remote command-line option
> (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html), which would be perfect
> except that it doesn't seem to include a way to refresh the current
> page.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill
> 

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