From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
To: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: how to view links in an external browser
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:12:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6fwwwq35o.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8239swj3l0.fsf@gmail.com> (Sivaram Neelakantan's message of "Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:15:15 +0530")
Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:
>> The most one can usually do with links in gnus is click them to view
>> with emacs-w3m. One cannot usually get the menu one can select view in
>> external browser from, by either right or left clicking. Same with ffap
>> links. emacs-snapshot: Installed: 1:20100916-1
>>
>>
>
> This setting works for me though there is a small bug in that it opens
> 2 tabs instead of 1 if the browser is already running. I put the
> following in the .gnus file.
>
> (setq browse-url-firefox-program "C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe")
>
> (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-firefox
> browse-url-new-window-flag nil
> browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab t)
>
> With the above, if I click on a link or hit enter on the url, it opens
> the link in Firefox.
>
> sivaram
> --
>
Alternatively
'(browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-generic))
'(browse-url-generic-program "iceweasel")
I prefer going to the "generic" route.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-26 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-26 8:04 jidanni
2010-09-26 8:45 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2010-09-26 9:12 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2010-10-26 3:04 ` jidanni
2010-10-26 12:15 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-26 9:35 ` Daniel Pittman
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