Re: Command for browsing article URLs?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019 at 11:23, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Not at all, thanks for testing. I'll probably add this as it is, then,
>> and fix further bugs as they arise. 
>
> I modified your code. If the target is an http link, I explicitly ask to
> browse the url instead of activating the widget. I found that doing the
> latter would simply create a new buffer and not display it (I use eww
> for browsing the web).  I probably should have used funcall but I'm not
> sure when one would or would not use such... I have much to learn about
> elisp.
>
> Alternatively, it may be that the final bit of your code could be
> adjusted as it may be that we should check for article as well as
> summary buffers?  Sometimes, I will invoke the url browsing when viewing
> just the article buffer, especially on a small device.

Oh, I hadn't tested it with eww, I should have. If you just click on the
http url in the article buffer with your mouse (ie, don't use this
function at all), what behavior do you get? I think you're right that
the best approach is to modify how the windows are manipulated
afterwards (or just drop that bit of the code altogether). I'd like this
to behave exactly as if you'd clicked the mouse, and would rather not
put special-casing in there.

Thanks again,
Eric