On Thu, Jun 02 2011, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Three hours ago, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote: >> >> If i've read the code correctly, it's currently not possible, in OS >> X, to specify a help browser other than "open" (the system's >> default). Am i right? And, if so, would you accept a bug report (or >> even a patch) to make it configurable as in linux? (i use racket >> inside emacs, and is very useful to set the help browser to a >> specific elisp function there). > > While in general I think that it's good to have such options, this one > feels wrong. The thing is that `open' is itself something that should > be configured to use whatever browser you'd want (including some > emacsclient thing, if needed).
Well, I disagree. In general, i don't want Emacs to be my OS X browser. I just want it to be my Racket documentation browser when i'm hacking Racket inside Emacs. Even if i wanted to set 'open' to emacsclient, when i browse Racket help pages i want to fine-tune how they're opened (e.g., reusing a single tab), and the best place to express such fine tunning is in an elisp function called by Racket's browser. And, IMO, it's not only for Emacs-heads that the option is useful: one might want to have a dedicated browser for Racket help because, say, Firefox displays Rackets manuals nicer than Safari, or quicker, or whatever. > (BTW, if you're talking about the w3m thing, I've tried it for a > while, and it's pretty unstable.) I'm talking about emacs-w3m, yes. I've been using the CVS version for many years now, without any stability problems (of course, it's useless for sites that *need* flash or javascript to work at all, but i guess i'm lucky i don't visit many of those). At any rate, when using Emacs to code in Racket, i find browsing the documentation inside Emacs extremely convenient (and stable). Cheers, jao -- Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we would all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music. - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
