From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26993 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: URL buttons and new browser windows... Date: 17 Nov 1999 11:43:59 +1100 Organization: Here, there and everywhere... Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87ogcu2bhs.fsf@inanna.danann.net> References: <8766z23r6e.fsf@inanna.danann.net> <86g0y6yn3a.fsf@megalith.bp.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 1035164097 22270 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:34:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:34:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: 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 TAA08187 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:44:53 -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 SAB23367; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:44:45 -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 18:45:00 -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 SAA25553 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:44:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from fw01.osa.com.au (fw01.osa.com.au [203.6.130.130]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA08160 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:44:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 28583 invoked by uid 0); 17 Nov 1999 00:44:00 -0000 Original-Received: from redgum.osa.com.au (15.16.33.1) by fw01.osa.com.au with SMTP; 17 Nov 1999 00:44:00 -0000 Original-Received: from inanna.danann.net (inanna.osa.com.au [172.16.33.101]) by redgum.osa.com.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA29272 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:43:29 +1100 Original-Received: by inanna.danann.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 567D45783C; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:43:59 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "16 Nov 1999 19:32:25 -0500" X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ Mail-Copies-To: Never X-spies: Croatian Serbian strategic Ft. Meade KGB Monica Lewinsky Kenneth Starr Vince Foster smuggle DES Treasury Qaddafi COSCO jihad New World Order Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) XEmacs/21.2 (Yoko) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26993 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26993 On 16 Nov 1999, William M. Perry wrote: > Daniel Pittman writes: [...] >> 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? Well, so would I, but I presumed that there was actually a good[1] reason that Larsi and company had done it this way. Or something. Daniel Footnotes: [1] I typo-ed this as 'god' the first time. Maybe not inappropriate ;) -- We had the experience but missed the meaning. -- T.S. Eliot, _The Dry Salvages_