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Re: customization of browse-url has no effect
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upro |
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Re: customization of browse-url has no effect |
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Thu, 08 May 2003 14:25:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl> writes:
> upro <upro@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> I want to use lynx (in an emacs window) as browsewr from within emacs.
>>
>> Via M-x customize I specified links as browser. In .emacs this looks
>> lke this:
>>
>> (custom-set-variables
>> '(browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-lynx-emacs))
>> )
>>
>> It works fine immediately after clicking on "save changes for this
>> session" and "save session for future sessions", but aftre shutting
>> down emacs and restarting the program it stops working. When hitting
>> return on a link (or clicking on it) I get the error message:
>> "Searching for program: file or directory not found, netscape"
>
> What is the value of the browse-url-browser-function variable (type
> C-h v browse-url-browser-function RET to find out) after you started
> Emacs for the second time? If it is not browse-url-lynx-emacs, then
> either 1) your .emacs with the above code snippet was not loaded, or
> 2) there is something in your .emacs after the code snippet that
> changes browse-url-browser-function, or 3) you have a default.el that
> does this. To test the latter possibility, put
>
> (setq inhibit-default-init t)
>
> in your .emacs to prevent loading default.el.
You're great - with inhibit-default-init in .emacs it finally works!
browse-url-browser-function's value is browse-url-netscape.
I have nothing in my .emacs talking about browsing, netscape or
similar, apart from the above line from custom-set-variables.
How come my custzom variable was not taken?
Thanks!
>
> Lute.
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- customization of browse-url has no effect, upro, 2003/05/08
- Re: customization of browse-url has no effect, Lute Kamstra, 2003/05/08
- Re: customization of browse-url has no effect, upro, 2003/05/08
- Re: customization of browse-url has no effect, Peter Lee, 2003/05/08
- Re: customization of browse-url has no effect, Johan Bockgård, 2003/05/08