[Rd] display URLs in browsers
Kurt Hornik
Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at
Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:11:07 +0200
>>>>> A J Rossini writes:
>>>>> "KH" == Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
>>>>> A J Rossini writes:
>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
MM> which suggests that
MM> mozilla -chrome http://www.R-project.org/
>>> Once mozilla is working, under gnome, I get this:
>>> gnome-moz-remote --newwin URL
>>> to bring up a new window.
KH> Thanks for the feedback. Actually,
KH> http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html claims that one can do
KH> mozilla -remote "openurl(http://www.mozilla.org)"
KH> but this does not work for me (version M18-3).
> Me neither.
>>> Recently, I've nearly (not entirely) converted to KDE's
>>> konqueror and
>>> konqueror URL
>>> works. I still am not fond of KDE's overall UI, but the tools
>>> they've developed suit my needs.
KH> That's all? Does that start a new version of konqueror if one
KH> is already up and running?
> I don't know. I'll check tonight.
Great, thanks.
KH> For gnome-help-browser, one can apparently do
KH> gnome-help-browser URL
KH> but I have yet to figure out how to use an existing
KH> help-browser ...
> But you probably don't want to use it for much; R help is fine, but
> much more wouldn't be.
Actually, I am mostly trying to get rid of the netscape-specific code in
help.start(). I.e., start a little private beast
diplayURLinBrowser(url, browser)
which eventually could be made more useful ...
-k
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