23.0.60; Allow ELinks in Emacs frames, or, Generalizing browse-url.el's browse-url-lynx-emacs

[Gwern Branwen]

Browse-url.el offers a neat function browse-url-lynx-emacs which opens up a 
Lynx browser within the current Emacs frame; this is very nice for binding so 
you can quickly follows hyperlinks and works very will with documentation and 
stuff like email in Gnus.

But I don't use Lynx, don't have it installed; looking through the source, 
there doesn't seem to be anything truly Lynx specific about it, and in fact, 
just substituting 'elinks' for 'lynx' (and removing one or two superfluous 
lines) seems to work fine.

Even better would be a general function which just runs a specified text 
browser (since there are a lot more than just ELinks and Lynx out there).  It 
wouldn't be terribly difficult to do - add a parameter to it, replace 
browse-url-lynx-emacs with a specialization of the generalization and you are 
more or less done (although I don't know how one would handle the various 
variables tweaking browse-url-lynx-emacs); I've attached a sort of example.

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gwern
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