GNU bug report logs - #18986
Design bug in browse-url.el: browse-url-can-use-xdg-open's logic uses overly strict assumption

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Florian v. Savigny" <florian <at> fsavigny.de>

Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 16:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Merged with 25778

Found in version 25.1

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 18986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
To: 18986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: #18986 Design bug in browse-url.el: browse-url-can-use-xdg-open's
 logic uses overly strict assumption
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:23:26 +0100

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Sorry for digging out this old issue, but it seemed that Florian's
suggestion (which was pretty good in my opinion) was never answered.

I've been battling with browse-url for longer than necessary, it seems
to me that there are just too many rough edges around xdg-open,
xdg-mime, ~/.config/mimeapps.list, `mailcap-mime-extensions'...

Having `browse-url-can-use-xdg-open' _and_ a customizable list of
default browser in `browse-url-default-browser' would help tremendously.

I'd like to add one more feature which could relieve non-DE users even further:

	(defun browse-url-default-browser (url &rest args)
	...
	  (apply
	   (cond
	   ...
	+   ((getenv "BROWSER") (executable-find (getenv "BROWSER")))
	    ((memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos cygwin))
	     'browse-url-default-windows-browser)

The "BROWSER" environment variable is relativement common and if it is
set, it most probably means that the users did that themselves.

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