From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Internal/external browsers Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:09:34 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87ob4jmhi9.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> References: Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387044617 7257 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2013 18:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 18:10:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 14 19:10:22 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VrtfR-00036b-O8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:10:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrtfR-0002Nj-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60633) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrtfI-0002NT-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrtfB-0007Qz-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:10:12 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrtfB-0007Qk-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:10:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vrtf9-0002zK-8M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:10:03 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:10:03 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:10:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jdciBi8UtPI8yCfBYlUrjbRb1z8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:166400 Archived-At: On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 18:57:56 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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