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From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Survey: how do you view links in a external browser?
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:57:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e62wrzlj7.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eibfya00.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:51:27 +0800")

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> How do fellows usually view links in a external browser when reading a
> message in gnus?
>
> Sure, to view them internally we can just hit RET on them and up comes
> emacs-w3m, etc.
>
> But to view them externally, the best we can do is copy/kill the region
> containing the link, then change to our Firefox etc. browser window, and
> paste it into the URL bar, and hit RET.
>
> Rather cavewomanish in this day and age.

Indeed. If that were the case. It isn't.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseUrl

(setq browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-generic))
(setq browse-url-generic-program "iceweasel")


>
> Or one can click them, and then in emacs-w3m hit M. Browsing the same
> link twice.
>
> It's all because gnus-version "Gnus v5.13" lacks right click menus.
>

I'm not sure I follow what a right click context menu has to do with
underlying functionality.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-24 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-24 13:51 jidanni
2010-10-24 14:02 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-10-24 14:57 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2010-10-24 15:15   ` jidanni
2010-10-24 15:49     ` Richard Riley
2010-10-24 16:00       ` jidanni
2010-10-24 17:38         ` Richard Riley
2010-10-24 18:18           ` jidanni
2010-10-24 19:29             ` Richard Riley
2010-10-24 16:10     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-24 17:03       ` [emacs-w3m:11398] " jidanni
2010-10-24 17:11         ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-11-29  4:09       ` jidanni
2010-11-29  9:05         ` Rupert Swarbrick
2010-10-24 15:42 ` Robert D. Crawford
2010-10-24 22:22   ` Richard Riley
2010-10-25 16:55     ` Robert D. Crawford
2010-10-25 18:01       ` Richard Riley
2010-10-24 17:03 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-10-25  0:54 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-10-25 17:54 ` Łukasz Stelmach

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