bug#74781: [PATCH] Add `browse-url-qutebrowser'

[Daniel Mendler]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:12:23 +0100, Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for 
>>>>>> GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> 
>>>>>> said:
>
>     Daniel> Hello Eli,
>     Daniel> thanks. I added the version tags, the NEWS entry, improved the
>     Daniel> docstrings and use `xdg-runtime-dir' now. See the updated patch
>     Daniel> attached to this mail.
>
>     >>> +         (sock (and dir (expand-file-name
>     >>> +                         (format "qutebrowser/ipc-%s" (md5 
> (user-login-name)))
>     >>> +                         dir))))
>     >> 
>     >> I think Qutebrowser is available on Windows, where we don't (yet)
>     >> support local sockets.  So I think there should be some kind of test
>     >> for running on Windows, and falling back to alternatives.
>
>     Daniel> On Windows, the socket won't be there, and the new Qutebrowser 
> window
>     Daniel> will be opened by the newly executed Qutebrowser process via
>     Daniel> `call-process'. This will work but is unfortunately slower.
>
> And it will check for the socket for every URL. Could you perhaps test
> whether to use the socket or not just once, and then use the
> appropriate call?

There is only the cheap `file-exists-p' check. It should be fast, in
comparison to what comes after that - the socket creation or the process
creation.

Daniel