Bug opening URL's with netscape

Bug opening URL's with netscape

[Jaap-Henk Hoepman]

When I try to open the following URL
        http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34294,00.html
by left-clicking on it within GNUS, netscape pops up an alert saying
  netscape-communicator: usage: OpenURL(url [ , new-window|window-name ])
I use GNUS 5.8.2 with XEmacs 21.1.7.

Jaap-Henk

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Re: Bug opening URL's with netscape

[Jack Vinson]

>>>>> "JH" == Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:

JH> When I try to open the following URL
JH>         http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34294,00.html
JH> by left-clicking on it within GNUS, netscape pops up an alert saying
JH>   netscape-communicator: usage: OpenURL(url [ , new-window|window-name ])
JH> I use GNUS 5.8.2 with XEmacs 21.1.7.

If I just hit this button (cursor in the Button, hit Enter), Netscape opens
up just fine for me.  This is with NTemacs 20.5.1 and Gnus 5.8.3.

Jack

Re: Bug opening URL's with netscape

[Jørgen Wahlberg]

[ Jack Vinson <JackVinson@yahoo.com> ]

|  JH> When I try to open the following URL
|  JH>         http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34294,00.html
|  JH> by left-clicking on it within GNUS, netscape pops up an alert saying
|  JH>   netscape-communicator: usage: OpenURL(url [ , new-window|window-name ])
|  JH> I use GNUS 5.8.2 with XEmacs 21.1.7.
|  
|  If I just hit this button (cursor in the Button, hit Enter), Netscape opens
|  up just fine for me.  This is with NTemacs 20.5.1 and Gnus 5.8.3.

Works fine for me too.  The ,-s are coded as %2c.  

Gnus 5.8.3, Emacs 20.5.1, Red Hat Linux 6.0.

 - jørgen

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Re: Bug opening URL's with netscape

[David S. Goldberg]

This is because the browse-url in the mail-libs package in the XEmacs
sumo file you likely installed didn't properly convert , to %2c.  I
"fixed" it with the attached advice.  I've been told there's a newer
browse-url for XEmacs but haven't had time to fetch it yet (actually,
I'm going to do it today: thanks for reminding me :-)

(defadvice browse-url-netscape (before fixup-specials activate)
  (ad-set-arg 0 (replace-in-string
		 (replace-in-string (ad-get-arg 0) " " "%20") "," "%2C")))

(defadvice browse-url-w3 (before fixup-specials activate)
  (ad-set-arg 0 (replace-in-string
		 (replace-in-string (ad-get-arg 0) " " "%20") "," "%2C")))

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