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Re: Internal/external browsers
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Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: Internal/external browsers |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:09:34 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 18:57:56 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
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
- Internal/external browsers, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2013/12/14
- Re: Internal/external browsers,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: Internal/external browsers, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2013/12/14
- Re: Internal/external browsers, Josh, 2013/12/14
- Re: Internal/external browsers, joakim, 2013/12/14
- Re: Internal/external browsers, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/12/14
- Re: Internal/external browsers, Mathias Dahl, 2013/12/22
- Re: Internal/external browsers, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/12/22