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

[Andrew C. <ak...@sh...>]

> * 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.

Let's test it and add the modification to browse-url.el if it works
well.  It would be nice to have it already setup with some default.  I
wonder if we need to handle `mailto:' specially however.