From: Pascal Quesseveur <pquessev@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: browse-url and URL handlers (MS-Windows)
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:44:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <825yh1b5si.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello,
On MS-Windows I had set browse-url-browser-function to a custom
function which calls 'rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler ...' to
open the URL with the dedicated program. I had set that definition
some years ago and I am pretty sure it worked.
With 28.1 it appears that my function is no longer called. It seems to
me it comes from the fact that browse-url uses
browse-url-default-handlers which is defined as:
(("\\`mailto:" . browse-url--mailto)
("\\`man:" . browse-url--man)
(browse-url--non-html-file-url-p . browse-url-emacs))
That means that for a URL which is not identified as HTML browse-url
calls browse-url-emacs. On my system that doesn't work when files are
not ASCII file (PNG, RTF, ...). I can define browse-url-handlers to
set a handler to open those files with an axternal program but I find
it annoying.
When called with a PREFIX browse-url calls
browse-url-secondary-browser-function which calls
browse-url-default-windows-browser. On MS-Windows that function calls
the MS-Windows system's default Web browser
(w32-shell-execute "open" ...)
and everything works as expected.
Why not always call browse-url-default-windows-browser in browse-url?
If I want to open a certain type of file with emacs, I can configure
the system to use emacsclient with that type of file. IMO things
would be easier.
--
Pascal Quesseveur
pquessev@gmail.com
next reply other threads:[~2022-10-03 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-03 9:44 Pascal Quesseveur [this message]
2022-10-03 20:42 ` browse-url and URL handlers (MS-Windows) Stefan Kangas
2022-10-05 8:11 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-10-05 16:21 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-11 10:04 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-11 12:32 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-10-11 15:31 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-11 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 16:59 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-11 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 7:20 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-11 17:45 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-10-11 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-11 17:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-11 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 18:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-11 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 18:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-11 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 19:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-12 6:54 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-11 18:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-11 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 7:25 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-10-11 17:43 ` Augusto Stoffel
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