[slime-devel] hyperspec-browse-url

[Edi Weitz]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:23:46 +0200, Marco Baringer <mb at bese.it> wrote:

> i have a patch to hyperspec.el which allows one to change the
> viewing of hyperspec entries. this came up on irc a while ago
> because some people want to use one browser for "regular" links and
> another for C-c C-h, there are two ways to achieve this, and i don't
> know which is better:
>
> 1) change hyperspec.el to use a hyperspec-browse-url-function variable
>    which is, normally, set to browse-url.
>
> 2) buffer locally set browse-url-function.
>
> preferences?

Why not just mention in the docs that Emacs can already handle this?

  (setq browse-url-browser-function
    '(("hyperspec" . w3m-browse-url)
      ("." . browse-url-netscape)))

Edi.