Customizable browser list

[Uday Reddy]

Picked up from Debian bug reports:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241533

Right clicking on a URL gives a menu of really outdated list of web browsers. Make it customizable so that the users can add browsers of their own choice.

[Tim Cross (tcross)]

I will look at this as part of my cleanup of VM custom interface

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

browse-url should also be listed on the menu. In fact, it should appear somewhere at the top.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Added browse-url, emacs-w3m and copy to PRIMARY selection as options in the browser menu. Revision 1127.

Copying to PRIMARY selection doesn't seem to be of any help on Win32. Does it help on X Windows or Mac?

I am not sure if it is worth it to make this list customizable.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

kill-new takes care of the primary selection.

[Tim Cross (tcross)]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Uday Reddy <email address hidden> wrote:

> kill-new takes care of the primary selection.
>
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> Title:
> Customizable browser list
>
> Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Picked up from Debian bug reports:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241533
>
> Right clicking on a URL gives a menu of really outdated list of web
> browsers. Make it customizable so that the users can add browsers of
> their own choice.
>

The following, taken from the emacs 24 NEWS file, may be relevant to any
changes wrt selection - in particular, the primary selection as there are
differences between platforms in this area and things change considerably
with emacs 24

** Selection changes.

The default handling of clipboard and primary selections was changed
to conform with modern X applications. In short, most commands for
killing and yanking text now use the clipboard, while mouse commands
use the primary selection.

In the following, we provide a list of these changes, followed by a
list of steps to get the old behavior back if you prefer that.

*** `mouse-drag-copy-region' now defaults to nil.
*** `select-active-regions' now defaults to t.
Merely selecting text (e.g. with drag-mouse-1) no longer puts it in
the kill-ring. The selected text is put in the primary selection, if
the system possesses a separate primary selection facility (e.g. X).

**** `select-active-regions' also accepts a new value, `only'.
This means to only set the primary selection for temporarily active
regions (usually made by mouse-dragging or shift-selection);
"ordinary" active regions, such as those made with C-SPC followed by
point motion, do not alter the primary selection.

*** mouse-2 is now bound to `mouse-yank-primary'.
This pastes from the primary selection, ignoring the kill-ring.
Previously, mouse-2 was bound to `mouse-yank-at-click'.

*** `x-select-enable-clipboard' now defaults to t on all platforms.
*** `x-select-enable-primary' now defaults to nil.
Thus, commands that kill text or copy it to the kill-ring (such as
M-w, C-w, and C-k) also use the clipboard---not the primary selection.

**** The "Copy", "Cut", and "Paste" items in the "Edit" menu are now
exactly equivalent to, respectively M-w, C-w, and C-y.

**** Note that on MS-Windows, `x-select-enable-clipboard' was already
non-nil by default, as Windows does not support the primary selection
between applications.

*** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:

**** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
**** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
**** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
**** Bind `mouse-yank-at-click' to mouse-2.

*** Support for X cut buffers has been removed.

** New command `rectangle-number-lines', bound to `C-x r N', numbers
the lines in the current rectangle. With an prefix argument, this
prompts for a number to count from and for a format string.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Tim Cross writes:

> The following, taken from the emacs 24 NEWS file, may be relevant to any
> changes wrt selection - in particular, the primary selection as there are
> differences between platforms in this area and things change considerably
> with emacs 24

It doesn't matter to us any more. We hand it to kill-new and it will
take care of things.

Check out the revision 1131.

Cheers,
Uday

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Revision 1135 adds doc-strings to mouse-2 and mouse-3, as well as the vm-url-browser variable.