From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26992
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: URL buttons and new browser windows...
Date: 16 Nov 1999 19:32:25 -0500
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <86g0y6yn3a.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com>
References: <8766z23r6e.fsf@inanna.danann.net>
Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164096 22261 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:34:56 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:34:56 +0000 (UTC)
Return-Path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48])
	by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07911
	for <jason@mailhost.sclp.com>; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:31:23 -0500 (EST)
Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5])
	by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB03959;
	Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:31:15 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:31:31 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139])
	by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA25487
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:31:20 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from biff.kiva.net (biff.kiva.net [206.97.64.31])
	by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA07905
	for <ding@gnus.org>; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:30:36 -0500 (EST)
Original-Received: (qmail 1962 invoked from network); 17 Nov 1999 00:29:18 -0000
Original-Received: from usrpri2-4.kiva.net (HELO megalith.bp.aventail.com) (206.97.75.69)
  by biff.kiva.net with SMTP; 17 Nov 1999 00:29:18 -0000
Original-Received: (from wmperry@localhost)
	by megalith.bp.aventail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01321;
	Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:32:25 -0500
Original-To: ding@gnus.org
X-Now-Listening-To: Orbital - Out There Somewhere?
X-Face: O~Rn;(l][/-o1sALg4A@xpE:9-"'IR[%;,,!m7</SYF`{vYQ(&RI1&EiH[FvT;J}@f!4kfz
 x_!Y#=y{Uuj9GvUi=cPuajQ(Z42R[wE@{G,sn$qGr5g/wnb*"*ktI+,CD}1Z'wxrM2ag-r0p5I6\nA
 [WJopW_J.WY;
In-Reply-To: Daniel Pittman's message of "17 Nov 1999 11:19:53 +1100"
Original-Lines: 24
User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/21.2 (Shinjuku)
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26992
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26992

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.