Web browsing helpers for Emacs on OS X.
(require 'osx-browse)
(osx-browse-mode 1)
;; ⌘-b ; browse to URL in foreground
;; C-- ⌘-b ; browse to URL in background
;; ⌘-i ; search Google in foreground
;; C-- ⌘-i ; search Google in background
;; position cursor on a URL
;; ⌘-b
;; select a region
;; ⌘-i
;; to turn off confirmations
(setq browse-url-dwim-always-confirm-extraction nil)This package helps Emacs run Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox
on OS X. It is similar to the built-in browse-url, but is
somewhat more friendly and configurable.
The foreground/background behavior of the external browser can be controlled via customizable variables and prefix arguments. A positive prefix argument forces foreground; a negative prefix argument forces background. With no prefix argument, the customizable variable setting is respected.
Default values for URLs or search text are deduced from the region or from context around the point, according to the heuristics in browse-url-dwim.el.
To use osx-browse, place the osx-browse.el library somewhere Emacs can find it, and add the following to your ~/.emacs file:
(require 'osx-browse)
(osx-browse-mode 1)The following interactive commands are provided:
osx-browse-mode
osx-browse-url
osx-browse-search
osx-browse-guess
osx-browse-url-safari
osx-browse-url-chrome
osx-browse-url-firefox
When osx-browse-install-aliases is set (the default) and
osx-browse-mode is turned on, aliases are added for the commands
browse
google
browse-url-chromium
This library uses browse-url-dwim.el, but does not require that
browse-url-dwim-mode be turned on. If both modes are turned
on, keybindings from both modes will be active.
When osx-browse-mode is turned on, browse-url-browser-function
is set to osx-browse-url, meaning that your default browsing
facilities will be provided by this library. osx-browse-url-safari
and friends are provided in the event that you wish to set
browse-url-browser-function by hand.
Keybindings don't work out of the box with Aquamacs, which does not think that ⌘ is the Super modifier.
OS X makes an iconified application visible, even when opening a URL in the background.
M-x customize-group RET osx-browse RET
M-x customize-group RET browse-url-dwim RET
M-x customize-group RET browse-url RET
GNU Emacs version 24.4-devel : yes, at the time of writing
GNU Emacs version 24.3 : yes
GNU Emacs version 23.3 : yes
GNU Emacs version 22.2 : yes, with some limitations
GNU Emacs version 21.x and lower : unknown
Requires: browse-url-dwim.el
Uses if present: string-utils.el