changeset 15780:0a03d2b02ba1

(browse-url-choose-browser): New function. (browse-url-browser-function): Use browse-url-choose-browser as the initial value.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:11:21 +0000
parents 5c12b862950f
children 5cd40832a444
files lisp/browse-url.el
diffstat 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lisp/browse-url.el	Wed Jul 24 04:21:31 1996 +0000
+++ b/lisp/browse-url.el	Wed Jul 24 16:11:21 1996 +0000
@@ -261,10 +261,11 @@
   "A regular expression probably matching a URL.")
 
 (defvar browse-url-browser-function
-  'browse-url-netscape
+  'browse-url-choose-browser
   "*Function to display the current buffer in a WWW browser.
-Used by the `browse-url-at-point', `browse-url-at-mouse', and
-`browse-url-of-file' commands.")
+This is used by the `browse-url-at-point', `browse-url-at-mouse', and
+`browse-url-of-file' commands.
+The function should take one argument, an URL.")
 
 (defvar browse-url-netscape-program "netscape"
   "*The name for invoking Netscape.")
@@ -591,6 +592,14 @@
   (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "W3 URL: "))
   (w3-fetch url))
 
+(defun browse-url-choose-browser (argument)
+  "Decide which browser to use, then invoke it.
+This is the default value of `browse-url-browser-function'."
+  (if (fboundp 'w3-fetch)
+      (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-w3)
+    (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-netscape))
+  (funcall browse-url-browser-function argument))
+
 (provide 'browse-url)
 
 ;;; browse-url.el ends here