On May 15, 11:01, Andrew Jaffe wrote:
> Subject: FVWM: FVWM + Emacs + Netscape --- intercommunication problems
> Since then, I have been having a problem with communication between
> GNU Emacs 19.34 and Netscape 3.0.
It's not a direct solution for your problem, but I use a program called
xcb which should be available from all X archives. They way it works is
the following:
1) With the mouse, I highlight any URL on the screen (mail, text files,
...)
2) I press on a button in my Wharf (I'm using wharf with fvwm) that executes
the following script:
#!/bin/sh
url=`xcb -S 0 && xcb -p 0`;
remotescape $url;
xcb prints the current selection on stdout, where it is captured by the
script and fed into this second script:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $1 ]; then
netscape -noraise -remote openURL\("$1",new-window\) >/dev/null 2>&1 \
|| exec netscape "$1" &
else
echo "Usage: $0 URL"
exit 0
fi
This second script starts a new netscape window with the selected URL.
It works like a charm, and I prefer its orthogonality over other `integrated'
approaches (in true UNIX style, this works with *every* application).
Cheers,
-Ives
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Ives Aerts (R&D Software engineer) Sony Objective Composer
Ives.Aerts_at_sonycom.com St.Stevens Woluwestr. 55
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Received on Tue May 20 1997 - 10:07:36 BST