xrefresh.el

You're looking at an Emacs-based server for xrefresh. Use it to automatically refresh your browser as you're developing in Emacs.

This obviously goes very well with Emacs' "never leave the home row" philosophy. Just hit C-f C-s and watch your browser window update.

Feedback

Please send any questions, suggestions and other feedback to justmoon@members.fsf.org.

Usage

Download xrefresh.el
Add the following to your dot-emacs:
```
(require 'xrefresh)
(xrefresh-start)
```
For customizing your configuration, please see below.
Use the XRefresh browser plugin of your choice.

Configuration

How can I change the server port?

Simply pass the port as a parameter like so:

   (xrefresh-start 1337)

You can even start multiple servers on different ports if you so desire. Not really sure what the point would be, but eh, you only live once.

What if my Emacs is running on a different machine than my browser?

From XRefresh FAQ

XRefresh monitor communicates with browser extension using TCP/IP. So, it is possible, but it may be tricky because you need to disable firewall and make sure they see each other. By default browser extension tries to connect to 127.0.0.1 on port 41258. In Firefox type about:config into the URL bar and filter keys by "xrefresh". Keys extensions.xrefresh.host and extensions.xrefresh.localConnectionsOnly are what you are looking for.

[TODO: Explain more configuration options.]

Outstanding issues

~~Plugin doesn't transmit CSS file contents - so CSS live reload does not work.~~ Works now

Please report any issues to justmoon@members.fsf.org

Thanks to

Dhruva Krishnamurthy - emacsserver.el

Binaryage - Makers of XRefresh

justmoon / xrefresh-emacs