Sending URLs to Netscape barfs if there are commas in the URL (as there often are at news.com, britannica.com, and elsewhere). I added a function to hexify the commas so it will work properly. Patch is attached. (brwose-url.el seems to be abandoned; the URL in the comments is dead and nothing on the site seems to point to the new place. If it really is abandoned, I'll act as the maintainer.) -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin(a)interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/ Paula Corbin Jones David John Oates DES munitions Panama Saddam Hussein Treasury Monica Lewinsky FBI class struggle SEAL Team 6 NWO Vickie Weaver Kibo Noriega ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** browse-url.el Thu Mar 4 23:53:37 1999 --- /home/cmcurtin/src/emacs/browse-url.el Tue Nov 9 13:20:25 1999 *************** *** 5,11 **** ;; Author: Denis Howe <dbh(a)doc.ic.ac.uk&gt; ;; Maintainer: Denis Howe <dbh(a)doc.ic.ac.uk&gt; ;; Created: 03 Apr 1995 ! ;; Version: 0.38 18 Jun 1996 ;; Keywords: hypertext ;; X-Home page: http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/ --- 5,11 ---- ;; Author: Denis Howe <dbh(a)doc.ic.ac.uk&gt; ;; Maintainer: Denis Howe <dbh(a)doc.ic.ac.uk&gt; ;; Created: 03 Apr 1995 ! ;; Version: 0.38.1 9 Nov 1999 (cmcurtin patch to 0.38) ;; Keywords: hypertext ;; X-Home page: http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/ *************** *** 342,347 **** --- 342,352 ---- ;; b-u-file-url encodes fewer chars. Multi-display support for ;; Netscape. Thanks Richard Mlynarik <mly(a)adoc.xerox.com&gt; + ;; 0.38.1 9 Nov 1999 + ;; browse-url-escape-url-for-netscape added to hexify commas + ;; in URLs. -- Matt Curtin <cmcurtin(a)interhack.net&gt; + + ;;; Code: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; *************** *** 676,681 **** --- 681,688 ---- process-environment) process-environment))) + (defun browse-url-escape-url-for-netscape (url) + (replace-in-string url "," "%2c" t)) ;;;###autoload (defun browse-url-netscape (url &optional new-window) *************** *** 699,705 **** (append browse-url-netscape-arguments (if new-window '("-noraise")) (list "-remote" ! (concat "openURL(" url (if new-window ",new-window") ")")))))) (set-process-sentinel process --- 706,713 ---- (append browse-url-netscape-arguments (if new-window '("-noraise")) (list "-remote" ! (concat "openURL(" ! (browse-url-escape-url-for-netscape url) (if new-window ",new-window") ")")))))) (set-process-sentinel process