Re: or-follow-link and EWW as default browser

[Tim Cross]

"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:

> Emacs is built from Github @head 
> GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 6, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.34,
> cairo version 1.16.0) of 2022-10-05
> Org mode version 9.5.5 (release_9.5.5 @ 
> /usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/org/)

Raman,

I cannot reproduce the issue you are seeing using your recipe. I get the
cnn page opened in eww wiht all expected key bindings, including the
expected <ret> binding for following links.

My bersions are

GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo
version 1.17.6, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2022-10-21

Org mode version 9.5.5 (release_9.5.5 @ 
/usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/org/)

The two main differences I note with our versions are

1. My build is from a later HEAD snapshot i.e. 21st Oct v 5th Oct
2. I'm building with lucid rather than GTK+

My suggestion would be to grab a recent HEAD snapshot and see if that
makes any differences (I did see some messages on the list about
browse-url, but didn't read them as I think they mainly related to
functionality on the windows platform). Perhaps there have been some changes
there in recent weeks).

The other suggestion I have, which is not specific to this issue, is to
build with the lucid toolkit rather than GTK. There has been a number of
discussions regarding issues and known bugs with the GTK build and given
you use stumpwm and are not concerned about the visual aspects of the
UI, there is little benefit gained from GTK. IN fact, my experience is
that lucid apps behave much better than gtk based ones under stumpwm. I
switched back to lucid a few months ago and have been very happy with
it.