[mew-int 3003] Re: mew-summary-execute-external for html not working on Emacs 23.{2, 3}

[Tatsuya Kinoshita]

On March 11, 2011, [mew-int 2974],
diogofsr (at gmail.com) wrote:

> Using C-cC-e (mew-summary-execute-external) to open html attachments
> is not working on Linux with Emacs 23.2 nor Emacs 23.3. No page is
> displayed on Firefox, although the temp file is create at /tmp.
> 
> I changed the command a little and now I got it working on Emacs
> 23.3. Unfortunately I didn't understand the previous one, so I don't
> know how much has changed.
[...]
>  (defvar mew-unix-browser "firefox")
> -(defvar mew-unix-browser-arg `("-a" "firefox" "-remote" "openFile(%s)"))
> +(defvar mew-unix-browser-arg `("%s"))

Works for me.  Setting mew-unix-browser-arg to nil also works.

BTW, Debian/Ubuntu packages set the following configuration to
use the sensible-browser.

  (setq mew-unix-browser "/usr/bin/sensible-browser")
  (setq mew-unix-browser-arg nil)

Thanks,
-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita