edd@debian.org
2002-Nov-09 20:51 UTC
(PR#2275) Re: Bug#168259: r-base-core: help.start() assumes netscape is installed
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:57:09AM -0800, A.J. Rossini wrote:> >>>>> "dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes: > > dirk> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:51:10PM +0000, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: > >> > To best of my knowledge, this R feature dates from a time when > >> > Netscape was essentially the only browser out there. It also had > >> > a most useful feature: you could attach new request (resulting in > >> > a new "frame" in X11 / window manager parlance) to a running Netscape > >> > making startup for this request /much/ faster than starting a new > >> > Netscape executable. > >> > >> and netscape no longer allows multiple executables to run. > > dirk> I just confirmed that mozilla does. E.g. mozilla > dirk> http://bbc.com & sleep 3; mozilla -remote > dirk> "openurl(http://cnn.com)" happily switches the running > dirk> session from the BBC to CNN. > > dirk> Neither galeon [ a mozilla derivative ] nor konqueror [ > dirk> different codebase ] appear to support it. > > Weird. Galeon can support both "adding a tab" as well as "separate > executable", apparently -- a few days ago, I was getting both from > different tools with "fetch a URL" features (mostly of the dockapps > variety). > > Same with recent konquerors...Ah. I may be behind then as far as versions are concerned. Debian testing, galeon 1.2.5, konqueror 2.2.2. Dirk -- The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._