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Re: [PATCH] Fix browse-url not working when browse-url-browser-function


From: vibhavp
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix browse-url not working when browse-url-browser-function is a list (regexp . function) pairs
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:40:14 +0530
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> But the way browse-url-browser-function is documented, it should be a
> list of conses, not a list of lists.  With your change, if
> browse-url-browser-function is an alist, like the doc string implies,
> the function will now fail.  So other users out there might suffer.

I phrased that wrong. Making browse-url-browse-function a list of lists
will not make sense to being with. The way browse-url works is by
iterating thorough every (REGEXP . FUNCTION) pair in
browse-url-browse-function, and applying string-match to the REGEXP
(which is the car of the pair) to the url. If the url matches the
REGEXP, browse-url opens the URL with it's associated function (the cdr
of the pair).

However (for some reason), (car bf) returns (browser-function) instead
of browse-function, which can be demonstrated with this piece of code:

(defun abc () 
  (dolist (bf '(("i.imgur.com" browse-url-emacs)
                ("youtube.com" browse-url-firefox)
                ("." browse-url-chromium)))
    (print (cdr bf))))

The output of this is:

(browse-url-emacs)

(browse-url-firefox)

(browse-url-chromium)

nil

This is not what we want, because applying (browse-url-emacs) to the URL
results in an "invalid function" error. If the "car" is replaced with a
"cadr", this is the output:

"browse-url-emacs"

"browse-url-youtube"

"browse-url-chromium"

nil

This is the desired outcome. So, I'm not sure if this change requires a
documentation change, because it is merely fixing a bug with how
browse-url function handles the variable.

Thanks,
Vibhav
-- 
Vibhav Pant
address@hidden



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