Re: eww-wont-follow-link...

[Julien Cubizolles]

Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> writes:


>
> Reading the relevant code, it seems to me that `eww-follow-link`
> probably expects to be called on a link in text that's been rendered
> by `shr`, which would have put the text property `shr-url` on URLs in
> the text. Thus,
>
> * the documentation for `eww-follow-link` needs to note this, so that
> users don't expect to be able to use this command outside of `eww` or
> `shr`-rendered text; or
>
> * the code for `eww-follow-link` should be modified to use a method of
> obtaining the URL at point that doesn't involve a text property having
> been set.

I found out I just needed to use the browse-url function and configure
the variable browse-url-browser-function.

Thanks for your reply.

Julien.