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authorDave Love <fx@gnu.org>1999-01-25 21:55:12 +0000
committerDave Love <fx@gnu.org>1999-01-25 21:55:12 +0000
commit0a383cc7726f8068de21e13450c3c8cb6d50fa11 (patch)
tree651a4aeb287a779b6b28d71fd0af3227742fb248
parent94c7a2147484d4ec5007291cc2befdb470f6114e (diff)
downloademacs-0a383cc7726f8068de21e13450c3c8cb6d50fa11.tar.gz
(browse-url-netscape-program): Doc addition.
-rw-r--r--lisp/browse-url.el14
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/browse-url.el b/lisp/browse-url.el
index 28e03b11b75..e87dc096a95 100644
--- a/lisp/browse-url.el
+++ b/lisp/browse-url.el
@@ -262,16 +262,14 @@ regexp should probably be \".\" to specify a default browser."
:group 'browse-url)
(defcustom browse-url-netscape-program "netscape"
- ;; Info about netscape-remote from Kurt Swanson in gnu.emacs.gnus
+ ;; Info about netscape-remote from Karl Berry.
"The name by which to invoke Netscape.
-It is said that source is available for a program `netscape-remote'
-which starts up very much quicker than `netscape' and that it is
-useful to set this variable to the name of a script which invokes that
-program like:
- #!/bin/sh
- /usr/local/bin/netscape-remote \"$@\" > /dev/null 2>&1
-"
+The free program `netscape-remote' from
+<URL:http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/remote.c> is said to start
+up very much quicker than `netscape'. Reported to compile on a GNU
+system, given vroot.h from the same directory, with cc flags
+ -DSTANDALONE -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXmu -lX11."
:type 'string
:group 'browse-url)