mouse-1 not going to URL

mouse-1 not going to URL

[Robert J. Chassell]

Today's GNU Emacs CVS snapshot, Sun, 2005 Oct 23  12:42 UTC
GNU Emacs 22.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.10)
built by evaluating

     (progn
       (cd "/usr/local/src/emacs/")
       (compile
        "date && ./configure --with-type1 \
         --with-x-toolkit=gtk \
         --prefix=/usr/local --with-sound=yes \
         && time make bootstrap && date")
        (ding) (sleep-for 1) (ding))

and started with

    emacs -Q

(bootstrap build and start with no errors)


Although moving the mouse over a URL produces this message as a
tooltip, 

    mouse-1: go to this URL

in fact, mouse-1 does not go to the URL, but moves point to the URL and
C-h f (`describe-function') says


    <down-mouse-1> at that spot runs the command mouse-drag-region

    -------------- up event ---------------

    <drag-mouse-1> at that spot runs the command mouse-set-region


Here is the URL in GNU Emacs Info mode:

    (As I point out in
    `http://www.rattlesnake.com/notions/energy-alternate-essence.html',
    these sources use the traditional `elements' of Fire, Air, Earth, and
    Water. 

Here is the Texinfo source:

    (As I point out in
    @url{http://www.rattlesnake.com/notions/energy-alternate-essence.html},
    these sources use the traditional `elements' of Fire, Air, Earth, and
    Water. 

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                         
    bob@rattlesnake.com                         GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  http://www.teak.cc

Re: mouse-1 not going to URL

[Richard M. Stallman]

    Although moving the mouse over a URL produces this message as a
    tooltip, 

	mouse-1: go to this URL

How exactly do you get that to happen?
What commands do you type, and over what text do you put the mouse?

Re: mouse-1 not going to URL

[Robert J. Chassell]

       Although moving the mouse over a URL produces this message as a
       tooltip,

           mouse-1: go to this URL

   How exactly do you get that to happen?
   What commands do you type, and over what text do you put the mouse?

I wrote the foo.texi file, which follows after my signature.  Then I
made an Info file from that Texinfo file by evaluating the following
in a shell:

    makeinfo --force --fill-column=70 --no-split --paragraph-indent=0 \
    --verbose foo.texi

In the foo.texi file, I included a URL reference to a known Web page:

    See
    @url{http://www.rattlesnake.com/notions/Choice-and-Constraint.html},
    which is intended as a description of `what is'
    @dots{}

In the default GNU Emacs, started with `emacs -Q -D', that sentence
appears as:

    See `http://www.rattlesnake.com/notions/Choice-and-Constraint.html',
    which is intended as a description of `what is' ...

(with the URL in blue and underlined).

In the default GNU Emacs, when I move the mouse over the URL, the
background changes to a light blue green that is called
`darkseagreen2'.  When I click a mouse cursor on the URL, the message
area says both:

    mouse-1: go to this URL

    Loading thingatpt...done

(which I quoted out of the *Messages* buffer) but nothing happens.

Hmmm ... `M-x w3' does nothing and I just looked for `w3' in the Emacs
CVS sources and could not find them.  I thought W3 mode was included
in the default CVS sources, but evidently it is not.  W3M mode, which
is much faster than W3 mode, is not included either.

That would explain why clicking the mouse cursor over the URL fails.

As is, in the default GNU Emacs, the message is wrong; it should not
say:

           mouse-1: go to this URL

Either W3 mode or preferably W3M mode should be made a part of the
standard Emacs or the message in the default should be changed.

(In my usual Emacs, in which W3M mode is loaded by my .emacs file, the
proper URL comes up when I click on it.  I just checked.  In this
case, the message is correct.)

--
    Robert J. Chassell
    bob@rattlesnake.com                         GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  http://www.teak.cc


Here is information from the default GNU Emacs started with
`emacs -Q -D':


    In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.10)
     of 2005-10-24 on benthic
    X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40300001
    configured using `configure '--with-type1' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-sound=yes''

    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: en_US
      locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
      default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

    Major mode: Info

    Minor modes in effect:
      mouse-wheel-mode: t
      auto-compression-mode: t
      font-lock-mode: t
      unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
      utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
      line-number-mode: t


Here is the foo.texi file that I use for testing:


\input texinfo.tex  @c -*-texinfo-*-
@comment %**start of header
@setfilename foo.info
@settitle Texinfo Test
@smallbook
@comment %**end of header

@ignore

 ## Summary of shell commands to create various output formats:

    pushd /u/texinfo/

    ## Info output
    makeinfo --force --fill-column=70 --no-split --paragraph-indent=0 \
    --verbose foo.texi

    ## ;; (kill-buffer "*info*")
    ## ;; (info "/u/texinfo/foo.info" nil)

    ## DVI output
    texi2dvi foo.texi

    ## View DVI output
    ##     xdvi foo.dvi &

    ## HTML output
    makeinfo --no-split --html foo.texi

    ## Plain text output
    makeinfo --fill-column=70 --no-split --paragraph-indent=0 \
    --verbose --no-headers --output=foo.txt  \
    foo.texi


    ## DocBook output
    makeinfo --docbook --no-split --paragraph-indent=0 \
    --verbose foo.texi

    ## XML output
    makeinfo --xml --no-split --paragraph-indent=0 \
    --verbose foo.texi

    popd

@end ignore

@titlepage
@sp 6
@re@center @titlefont{Test document}
@sp 4
@center by Robert J. Chassell

@page
@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
@end titlepage

@contents

@ifnottex
@node Top, Chapter One, (dir), (dir)
@top Test Top
@end ifnottex

@menu
* Chapter One::
@end menu

@node Chapter One,  , Top, Top
@chapter Chapter One

Contents of chapter 1.

See
@url{http://www.rattlesnake.com/notions/Choice-and-Constraint.html},
which is intended as a description of `what is'
@dots{} not the `what is' that most often concern citizens,
politicians, and political scientists, but a `what is' that reflects
the current world and of `what can be done'.

More contents of chapter 1.

@bye

Re: mouse-1 not going to URL

[Lennart Borgman]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>In the default GNU Emacs, started with `emacs -Q -D', that sentence
>appears as:
>
>    See `http://www.rattlesnake.com/notions/Choice-and-Constraint.html',
>    which is intended as a description of `what is' ...
>
>(with the URL in blue and underlined).
>
>In the default GNU Emacs, when I move the mouse over the URL, the
>background changes to a light blue green that is called
>`darkseagreen2'.  When I click a mouse cursor on the URL, the message
>area says both:
>
>    mouse-1: go to this URL
>
>    Loading thingatpt...done
>
>(which I quoted out of the *Messages* buffer) but nothing happens.
>  
>
On w32 with CVS Emacs compiled a few days ago clicking on the link or 
pressing RET opens the URL in my browser.

However trying to look at the link with C-h c gives this:

  RET (translated from <return>) runs the command Info-follow-nearest-node
  <down-mouse-1> at that spot runs the command mouse-drag-region

Re: mouse-1 not going to URL

[Robert J. Chassell]

Lennart Borgman wrote,

    On w32 with CVS Emacs compiled a few days ago clicking on the link
    or pressing RET opens the URL in my browser.

That is what I expected, but it did not happen in the default.  (I
hardly ever use a default Emacs, so I cannot tell you when the problem
began or whether it has always been there, although I think not.)

Which Web browser is started?  What happens when you use today's CVS
snapshot?

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                         
    bob@rattlesnake.com                         GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  http://www.teak.cc

Re: mouse-1 not going to URL

[Romain Francoise]

In its default configuration Emacs automatically tries to find a usable
browser, see the `browse-url-default-browser' function.  One of these
browsers must be present on your system, but malfunctioning.

(With the test case you posted, the Mozilla browser is started on my
system.)

-- 
Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> | I've become someone else's
it's a miracle -- http://orebokech.com/ | nightmare...

Re: mouse-1 not going to URL

[Lennart Borgman]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>Lennart Borgman wrote,
>
>    On w32 with CVS Emacs compiled a few days ago clicking on the link
>    or pressing RET opens the URL in my browser.
>
>That is what I expected, but it did not happen in the default.  (I
>hardly ever use a default Emacs, so I cannot tell you when the problem
>began or whether it has always been there, although I think not.)
>
>Which Web browser is started?  What happens when you use today's CVS
>snapshot?
>  
>
Firefox started with todays CVS.

Re: mouse-1 not going to URL

[Robert J. Chassell]

   In its default configuration Emacs automatically tries to find a usable
   browser, see the `browse-url-default-browser' function.  One of these
   browsers must be present on your system, but malfunctioning.

Thanks!  That was it.  I had 

    /usr/bin/gnome-moz-remote

which did not work.  `browse-url-gnome-moz' comes first in the
conditional in `browse-url-default-browser'.

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                         
    bob@rattlesnake.com                         GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  http://www.teak.cc

Re: mouse-1 not going to URL

[Richard M. Stallman]

When I try your example, it tries to call browse-url
with either Mouse-1 or Mouse-2.
(That does not actually work on my machine)