Re: URL button question

[Max Froumentin <masmef@bath.ac.uk>]

Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

> The problem with the new-window-p stuff in your copy is probably
> fairly obvious.  It wasn't deemed a serious enough bug to be fixed
> post-20.4.

Although my knowledge of elisp is very small, I've had a look at
gnus-art.el and browse-url.el. What happens is that gnus calls
browse-url with only the url as an argument.  browse-url itself calls
browse-url-netscape with the same arg, so the 'new-window' arg is never set.

The obvious fix is be to have gnus call browse-url with a second
argument. What I did is replace the call to browse-url in
gnus-button-alist with 'my-browse-url-new-window' defined as:

(defun my-browse-url-new-window (url)
  (browse-url url t))

It's definitely not the best way of doing it. When I'm confident about
writing correct elisp (if that ever happens) I'll try and find a
better fix (a popup menu would be nice).

Max.