* how to view links in an external browser
@ 2010-09-26 8:04 jidanni
2010-09-26 8:45 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2010-09-26 9:35 ` Daniel Pittman
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: jidanni @ 2010-09-26 8:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
The most one can usually do with links in gnus is click them to view
with emacs-w3m. One cannot usually get the menu one can select view in
external browser from, by either right or left clicking. Same with ffap
links. emacs-snapshot: Installed: 1:20100916-1
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* Re: how to view links in an external browser
2010-09-26 8:04 how to view links in an external browser jidanni
@ 2010-09-26 8:45 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2010-09-26 9:12 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-26 9:35 ` Daniel Pittman
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sivaram Neelakantan @ 2010-09-26 8:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
> The most one can usually do with links in gnus is click them to view
> with emacs-w3m. One cannot usually get the menu one can select view in
> external browser from, by either right or left clicking. Same with ffap
> links. emacs-snapshot: Installed: 1:20100916-1
>
>
This setting works for me though there is a small bug in that it opens
2 tabs instead of 1 if the browser is already running. I put the
following in the .gnus file.
(setq browse-url-firefox-program "C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe")
(setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-firefox
browse-url-new-window-flag nil
browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab t)
With the above, if I click on a link or hit enter on the url, it opens
the link in Firefox.
sivaram
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* Re: how to view links in an external browser
2010-09-26 8:45 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
@ 2010-09-26 9:12 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-26 3:04 ` jidanni
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Richard Riley @ 2010-09-26 9:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sivaram Neelakantan; +Cc: ding
Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:
>> The most one can usually do with links in gnus is click them to view
>> with emacs-w3m. One cannot usually get the menu one can select view in
>> external browser from, by either right or left clicking. Same with ffap
>> links. emacs-snapshot: Installed: 1:20100916-1
>>
>>
>
> This setting works for me though there is a small bug in that it opens
> 2 tabs instead of 1 if the browser is already running. I put the
> following in the .gnus file.
>
> (setq browse-url-firefox-program "C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe")
>
> (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-firefox
> browse-url-new-window-flag nil
> browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab t)
>
> With the above, if I click on a link or hit enter on the url, it opens
> the link in Firefox.
>
> sivaram
> --
>
Alternatively
'(browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-generic))
'(browse-url-generic-program "iceweasel")
I prefer going to the "generic" route.
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* Re: how to view links in an external browser
2010-09-26 8:04 how to view links in an external browser jidanni
2010-09-26 8:45 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
@ 2010-09-26 9:35 ` Daniel Pittman
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Pittman @ 2010-09-26 9:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> The most one can usually do with links in gnus is click them to view
> with emacs-w3m. One cannot usually get the menu one can select view in
> external browser from, by either right or left clicking. Same with ffap
> links. emacs-snapshot: Installed: 1:20100916-1
Others pointed out how to get this working for plain-text email. Inside w3m
rendered HTML things were not so simple, and I use this ugly fellow:
(defadvice w3m-safe-view-this-url
(around gnus-open-in-real-browser activate)
"Cause w3m to open a URL in an external browser, but only within the
scope of a Gnus mail buffer. In theory. It presently doesn't implement
that limit at all."
(browse-url (w3m-anchor)))
I don't know how the in-Gnus HTML rendering behaves, though.
Daniel
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* Re: how to view links in an external browser
2010-09-26 9:12 ` Richard Riley
@ 2010-10-26 3:04 ` jidanni
2010-10-26 12:15 ` Richard Riley
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From: jidanni @ 2010-10-26 3:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rileyrg; +Cc: nsivaram.net, ding
OK, thanks everybody. I now have working fine in .gnus.el:
(define-key gnus-article-mode-map [?M] 'browse-url-firefox); same key as w3m-view-url-with-external-browser
(However the right mouse stuff should still be implemented one day.)
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* Re: how to view links in an external browser
2010-10-26 3:04 ` jidanni
@ 2010-10-26 12:15 ` Richard Riley
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Richard Riley @ 2010-10-26 12:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jidanni; +Cc: rileyrg, nsivaram.net, ding
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> OK, thanks everybody. I now have working fine in .gnus.el:
> (define-key gnus-article-mode-map [?M] 'browse-url-firefox); same key as
> w3m-view-url-with-external-browser
> (However the right mouse stuff should still be implemented one day.)
I find it makes more sense to use the generic function and then to change your
default browser it is simply a question of customising the generic browser
variable. See previous post.
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