Re: Survey: how do you view links in a external browser?

["Robert D. Crawford" <robdcraw@gmail.com>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> "Robert D. Crawford" <robdcraw@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (defun rdc-gnus-open-in-browser (&optional arg)
>>   "opens the link under point in browser
>> numeric argument calls alternate browser"
>>   (interactive "p")
>>   ;; the next few lines are not useful to you
>>   ;;  (dtk-speak "Opening URL in GUI browser")
>>   ;;  (let ((emacspeak-speak-messages nil))
>>     (goto-char (point-min))
>>     (search-forward-regexp "link")
>>     ;; the next line moves into the word "link"
>>     (backward-char 2)
>>     (if (= arg 4)
>>         (setq browser-command-string "chrome ")
>>       (setq browser-command-string "firefox "))
>>     (shell-command  (concat browser-command-string
>>                             "\""
>>                             (if (eq browse-url-browser-function
>>                                     'browse-url-w3)
>>                                 (w3-view-this-url)
>>                               (w3m-print-this-url)
>>                             "\""
>>                             nil nil))))
>>
> What wrong with something as simple as
>
> (setq browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-generic))
> (setq browse-url-generic-program "iceweasel")
>
> for the default return key/left click on a link
>
> and then something like
>
>   (define-key mode-specific-map [?u] 'w3m-browse-url)
>
> for internal using w3m?

There might be a simpler way than what I've done here but I'm not sure.
I do know that using w3 to render in gnus, calling both
browse-url-firefox and w3m-browse-url both give something like this
response in the minibuffer:

URL: http://link

I could have written the defun above using these functions I'm sure but
still would have had to resort to getting the link somehow and then
figuring out if I was using w3m or w3 as the renderer.  At the time it
was written I was attempting, in an admittedly limited way, to work on
emacspeak and it was not uncommon to switch renderers several times over
the course of a single session.

Take care,
rdc
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Robert D. Crawford                                     robdcraw@gmail.com