Re: Refreshing Firefox window from within Emacs?

[Thorsten Bonow]

>>>>> "Bill" == batkins  <batkins57@gmail.com> writes:

    Bill> Is there any way to do this kind of thing (on X11)?  Firefox provides
    Bill> the -remote command-line option
    Bill> (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html), which would be perfect
    Bill> except that it doesn't seem to include a way to refresh the current
    Bill> page.

Hi,

just checked, calling 

     mozilla -remote "openfile(/home/toto/42/foo.txt)"

on my Debian System *reloads* "foo.txt" if it is already displayed in firefox.

So, together with "shell-command", you could refresh your file from within
Emacs.

    Bill> Thanks, Bill

Hope this helps,

Toto

PS: 10 minutes too early over here to wish you a happy new year and make this
    my first posting in 2006 :-)


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