bug#10065: 23.2; browse-url requires lynx

bug#10065: 23.2; browse-url requires lynx

[Krzysztof =17belechowski]

M-x browse-url http://www.gnu.org/
> xterm: lynx: command not found
Emacs should try to open the URL using xdg-open instead 
(this would get me to SeaMonkey).

C-h v browse-url-default-browser 
> The order attempted is gnome-moz-remote, Mozilla, Firefox,
> Galeon, Konqueror, Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx in an xterm, and then W3.
Let the order attempted be XdgOpen, gnome-moz-remote, Mozilla, Firefox, 
SeaMonkey,
Galeon, Konqueror, Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx or W3m in an xterm, and then W3.



In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.1)
 of 2011-02-22 on build27
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10903000
configured using `configure  '--with-pop' '--without-hesiod' '--with-kerberos' '--with-kerberos5' '--with-xim' '--enable-autodepend' '--prefix=/usr' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--with-x' '--with-sound' '--with-sync-input' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-dbus' '--without-gpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--x-includes=/usr/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/lib:/usr/share/X11' '--with-xft' '--with-libotf' '--with-m17n-flt' '--build=i586-suse-linux' 'build_alias=i586-suse-linux' 'CC=gcc-4.3' 'CFLAGS=-fomit-frame-pointer -fmessage-length=0 -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -std=gnu89 -pipe -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-label -Wno-unprototyped-calls -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=55000 	 -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000 ' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O2 -Wl,--hash-size=65521''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: pl_PL.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x r e <backspace> <backspace> b r o w s e - u r l 
<return> h t t p : / / w w w . g n u . o r g / <return> 
M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr message idna sendmail regexp-opt ecomplete rfc822
mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
mailcap mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev
nnheader gnus-util netrc time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit
mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug thingatpt
browse-url lpr disp-table tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type
mwheel x-win x-dnd font-setting tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe
lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham
georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic
indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple
abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties
overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
system-font-setting font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

bug#10065: 23.2; browse-url requires lynx

[Glenn Morris]

Version: 24.1

Krzysztof =17belechowski wrote:

> Emacs should try to open the URL using xdg-open instead 

Thanks for the report. Emacs 24 will use xdg-open if it can.
You might like to try a pretest from alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ .

> In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.1)
>  of 2011-02-22 on build27