Re: [Mac-emacs-users] "browse-url" support for Macintosh

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* pi...@cs... [2002-06-13 16:27:07]
> There is no reason to patch browse-urk for this. The following also works:
>
> (if (eq system-type 'darwin)
>     (setq browse-url-generic-program
> 	  "openurl"))
>
> where openurl is the shellscript:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> osascript -e 'open location "'$*'"'

Yes, this is similar to the first version that I had (mine called
osascript directly from browse-url).

> I think the do-applescript solution requires a patched emacs, doesn't it?

Yes, though that patch isn't something specific to browse-url - it
would be a good thing to do generally.  The advantage of the
do-applescript version is that it doesn't require the creation of
extra processes.  It should be a little faster, and will consume less
resources (forking emacs to exec the shell and/or osascript seems like
something best avoided where possible).

dme.