Re: URL buttons and new browser windows...

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Daniel Pittman <daniel@danann.net> writes:

> Given that I am often on a relatively slow connection, I tend to use my
> web browser as a background process--create a new window for an URL, do
> something for a while and then go and read it.
> 
> This is fairly trivial to do and works well with the XEmacs 'browse-url'
> library and 'browse-url-new-window-p' set to 't'. This should cause the
> package to open a new window when a URL is visited.
> 
> pGnus in the article buttonization code does not use the top level
> entry-point for 'browse-url' but rather directly calls the selected
> function (browse.*netscape) in my case :)
> 
> The problem is that gnus did not respect the setting of
> 'browse-url-new-window-p' which was annoying to me.
> 
> The attached patch corrects this and is, I believe, trivially correct.

I'd vote for Gnus to just use browse-url... why on earth is it trying to
call the browse-url-browser-function directly?  That seems kind of... uh,
silly?

-Bill P.