[Bruce Ingalls] browse-url patch

[Bruce Ingalls] browse-url patch

[Dave Love]

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This is clearly bogus, but I guess I should pass it on.


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From: Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@nj.rr.com>
To: fx@gnu.org
Subject: browse-url patch
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:02:31 -0500
Message-ID: <40154827.4080309@nj.rr.com>

Hi.
In the process of maintaining <url: http://emacro.sourceforge.net/ > I 
wrote some code, which may be useful to include into browse-url.el.
If you do have time to review the code that I've written in 
e-browser.el; it may be that I am writing unnecessary code, as it was 
started before browse-url got to be as good as it currently is.
Essentially, e-browser.el tries to be a little more user-friendly, by 
check the PATH to the browser, and choosing one.

I noticed that you do look somewhat at the gnome default browser, in 
browse-url, but this may be better code.
This snippet of code sets "use-browser" to the default under Gnome (or w32)

  (let ((e-def-browser (shell-command-to-string
     "gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command")))
  (cond
;;   ((string-match "w32" (symbol-name window-system))
;;    (defconst use-browser 'default))    ;w32 supports a default browser
;;Else assume this is Gnome v2, and check for default browser
   (e-def-browser
    (defconst use-browser        ;Trim any typical " %s" off end
      (substring e-def-browser 0 (string-match "[ \t]%s" e-def-browser))))

Does this get synched automatically with Emacs, or do I have to send 
this patch seperately to the maintainer of browse-url.el for FSF/Gnu Emacs?

I also include code in e-browser, such as
      (defconst browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-netscape)
      (defconst browse-url-netscape-program "MozillaFirebird")))
However, this leads to an annoying message at the bottom
    "Starting Netscape..."
How can I override this?

I would like to support other text-mode browsers, such as links and 
elinks, but lynx is hard coded and not overridable in browse-url.

Thanks for this wonderful piece of software!



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