Re: Bug in Carbon port: browse-url-default-macosx-browser

[Lennart Borgman]

David Reitter wrote:

> On 24 Nov 2005, at 23:44, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
> > I think the implementation in Emacs for w32 is of the same type. I  
> > actually think it is quite practical most of the time. This way  
> > Emacs behaves as I expect it to on w32. Firefox installed itself so  
> > that it took care of this. It would not have been possible if Emacs  
> > explicitly specified the web browser. But maybe things works  
> > differently on Mac?
> >
> > Maybe the doc string should be changed? Perhaps something like:
> >
> >    Asked OS to give url to associated application (normally a web  
> > browser)
>
>
> I think the defined functionality is just the right thing. On OS X,  
> there is a system-wide browser default, which may or may not coincide  
> with the association for .html files. The browser default is what  
> should be respected.
Thanks, I see. I do not think you can divide between those two things on 
w32 (but I am not absolutely sure about that). Your explanation makes it 
much more easy for me to understand what you want.

Is there then a way for Emacs to use the system-wide browser default?