From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Internal/external browsers
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:09:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob4jmhi9.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3mwk32u3f.fsf@stories.gnus.org
On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 18:57:56 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> When you hit RET on a link in shr/eww, it uses the browse-url browser to
LMI> follow the link. If you hit `C-u RET', it uses the
LMI> `shr-external-browser' browser.
LMI> It's been that way for some months now, and I must say I really like
LMI> that. I have eww set as the default browser, and quite a few web pages
LMI> display well enough in eww, and it's much more pleasant to read those
LMI> web pages inside Emacs.
LMI> And when I know that the link points to a page that eww is unlikely to
LMI> cope with, I just hit `C-u RET' and get a Firefox browser window popping
LMI> up.
LMI> So now I want all URL links in Emacs to work that way, like in erc mode,
LMI> etc.
LMI> Does this make sense to people? If so, I think browse-url itself should
LMI> be extended with a browse-url-external-browser variable, and then the
LMI> `browse-url' function itself should use these two variables, instead of
LMI> shr implementing this stuff itself...
To me, that makes good sense everywhere in Emacs. Except I'd like `C-u
RET' to show a list of browsers, if I have more than one I like to use.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-14 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-14 17:57 Internal/external browsers Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-12-14 18:09 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-12-14 18:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-12-14 18:36 ` Josh
2013-12-14 19:44 ` joakim
2013-12-14 19:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-12-22 13:50 ` Mathias Dahl
2013-12-22 22:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
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