browse-url: Remove support for Netscape

* lisp/net/browse-url.el (browse-url-netscape-program)
(browse-url-netscape-arguments)
(browse-url-netscape-startup-arguments)
(browse-url-netscape-new-window-is-tab)
(browse-url-netscape-version, browse-url-netscape)
(browse-url-netscape-sentinel, browse-url-netscape-reload)
(browse-url-netscape-send): Delete, thus removing support for the long
defunct Netscape web browser.
* etc/NEWS: Announce its removal.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 3bdbdde55139e918d7c14722220f46a0f19518a2..4bfa1eed85dd048c38b5b55e8051483082fddfe0 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -684,6 +684,12 @@ When calling 'abbreviate-file-name' on a Tramp filename, the result
 will abbreviate the user's home directory, for example by abbreviating
 "/ssh:user@host:/home/user" to "/ssh:user@host:~".
 
+** Browse URL
+
+*** Support for the Netscape web browser has been removed.
+This support has been obsolete since Emacs 25.1.  The final version of
+the Netscape web browser was released in February, 2008.
+
 \f
 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.1
 

diff --git a/lisp/net/browse-url.el b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
index d39cc361e56d4d1058532980f9ee180bd0b27836..990bc41d9848d42b774111849bfb6617a5dc4d56 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/net/browse-url.el
+++ b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
@@ -240,33 +240,6 @@ be used instead."
   :version "27.1"
   :type 'regexp)
 
-(defcustom browse-url-netscape-program "netscape"
-  ;; Info about netscape-remote from Karl Berry.
-  "The name by which to invoke Netscape.
-
-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)
-
-(make-obsolete-variable 'browse-url-netscape-program nil "25.1")
-
-(defcustom browse-url-netscape-arguments nil
-  "A list of strings to pass to Netscape as arguments."
-  :type '(repeat (string :tag "Argument")))
-
-(make-obsolete-variable 'browse-url-netscape-arguments nil "25.1")
-
-(defcustom browse-url-netscape-startup-arguments browse-url-netscape-arguments
-  "A list of strings to pass to Netscape when it starts up.
-Defaults to the value of `browse-url-netscape-arguments' at the time
-`browse-url' is loaded."
-  :type '(repeat (string :tag "Argument")))
-
-(make-obsolete-variable 'browse-url-netscape-startup-arguments nil "25.1")
-
 (defcustom browse-url-browser-display nil
   "The X display for running the browser, if not same as Emacs's."
   :type '(choice string (const :tag "Default" nil)))
@@ -373,7 +346,7 @@ Defaults to the value of `browse-url-epiphany-arguments' at the time
   :type 'string
   :version "29.1")
 
-;; GNOME means of invoking either Mozilla or Netscape.
+;; GNOME means of invoking Mozilla.
 (defvar browse-url-gnome-moz-program "gnome-moz-remote")
 
 (make-obsolete-variable 'browse-url-gnome-moz-program nil "25.1")
@@ -420,15 +393,6 @@ If non-nil, then open the URL in a new tab rather than a new window if
 `browse-url-epiphany' is asked to open it in a new window."
   :type 'boolean)
 
-(defcustom browse-url-netscape-new-window-is-tab nil
-  "Whether to open up new windows in a tab or a new window.
-If non-nil, then open the URL in a new tab rather than a new
-window if `browse-url-netscape' is asked to open it in a new
-window."
-  :type 'boolean)
-
-(make-obsolete-variable 'browse-url-netscape-new-window-is-tab nil "25.1")
-
 (defcustom browse-url-new-window-flag nil
   "Non-nil means always open a new browser window with appropriate browsers.
 Passing an interactive argument to \\[browse-url], or specific browser
@@ -525,14 +489,6 @@ You might want to set this to somewhere with restricted read permissions
 for privacy's sake."
   :type 'string)
 
-(defcustom browse-url-netscape-version 3
-  "The version of Netscape you are using.
-This affects how URL reloading is done; the mechanism changed
-incompatibly at version 4."
-  :type 'number)
-
-(make-obsolete-variable 'browse-url-netscape-version nil "25.1")
-
 (defcustom browse-url-text-browser "lynx"
   "The name of the text browser to invoke."
   :type 'string
@@ -1009,8 +965,6 @@ The optional NEW-WINDOW argument is not used."
 (function-put 'browse-url-default-macosx-browser 'browse-url-browser-kind
               'external)
 
-;; --- Netscape ---
-
 (defun browse-url-process-environment ()
   "Set DISPLAY in the environment to the X display the browser will use.
 This is either the value of variable `browse-url-browser-display' if
@@ -1055,7 +1009,6 @@ instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
     ((executable-find browse-url-chromium-program) 'browse-url-chromium)
 ;;;    ((executable-find browse-url-galeon-program) 'browse-url-galeon)
     ((executable-find browse-url-kde-program) 'browse-url-kde)
-;;;    ((executable-find browse-url-netscape-program) 'browse-url-netscape)
     ((executable-find browse-url-chrome-program) 'browse-url-chrome)
     ((executable-find browse-url-webpositive-program) 'browse-url-webpositive)
     ((executable-find browse-url-xterm-program) 'browse-url-text-xterm)
@@ -1089,82 +1042,6 @@ The optional argument IGNORED is not used."
 
 (function-put 'browse-url-xdg-open 'browse-url-browser-kind 'external)
 
-;;;###autoload
-(defun browse-url-netscape (url &optional new-window)
-  "Ask the Netscape WWW browser to load URL.
-Default to the URL around or before point.  The strings in variable
-`browse-url-netscape-arguments' are also passed to Netscape.
-
-When called interactively, if variable `browse-url-new-window-flag' is
-non-nil, load the document in a new Netscape window, otherwise use a
-random existing one.  A non-nil interactive prefix argument reverses
-the effect of `browse-url-new-window-flag'.
-
-If `browse-url-netscape-new-window-is-tab' is non-nil, then
-whenever a document would otherwise be loaded in a new window, it
-is loaded in a new tab in an existing window instead.
-
-When called non-interactively, optional second argument NEW-WINDOW is
-used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
-  (declare (obsolete nil "25.1"))
-  (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
-  (setq url (browse-url-encode-url url))
-  (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment))
-        (process
-         (apply #'start-process
-                (concat "netscape " url) nil
-                browse-url-netscape-program
-                (append
-                 browse-url-netscape-arguments
-                 (if (eq window-system 'w32)
-                     (list url)
-                   (append
-                    (if new-window '("-noraise"))
-                    (list "-remote"
-                          (concat "openURL(" url
-                                  (if (browse-url-maybe-new-window
-                                       new-window)
-                                      (if browse-url-netscape-new-window-is-tab
-                                          ",new-tab"
-                                        ",new-window"))
-                                  ")"))))))))
-    (set-process-sentinel process
-                         (lambda (process _change)
-                           (browse-url-netscape-sentinel process url)))))
-
-(function-put 'browse-url-netscape 'browse-url-browser-kind 'external)
-
-(defun browse-url-netscape-sentinel (process url)
-  "Handle a change to the process communicating with Netscape."
-  (declare (obsolete nil "25.1"))
-  (or (eq (process-exit-status process) 0)
-      (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment)))
-       ;; Netscape not running - start it
-       (message "Starting %s..." browse-url-netscape-program)
-       (apply #'start-process (concat "netscape" url) nil
-              browse-url-netscape-program
-              (append browse-url-netscape-startup-arguments (list url))))))
-
-(defun browse-url-netscape-reload ()
-  "Ask Netscape to reload its current document.
-How depends on `browse-url-netscape-version'."
-  (declare (obsolete nil "25.1"))
-  (interactive)
-  ;; Backwards incompatibility reported by
-  ;; <peter.kruse@psychologie.uni-regensburg.de>.
-  (browse-url-netscape-send (if (>= browse-url-netscape-version 4)
-                               "xfeDoCommand(reload)"
-                             "reload")))
-
-(defun browse-url-netscape-send (command)
-  "Send a remote control command to Netscape."
-  (declare (obsolete nil "25.1"))
-  (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment)))
-    (apply #'start-process "netscape" nil
-           browse-url-netscape-program
-           (append browse-url-netscape-arguments
-                   (list "-remote" command)))))
-
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun browse-url-mozilla (url &optional new-window)
   "Ask the Mozilla WWW browser to load URL.
@@ -1418,7 +1295,7 @@ currently selected window instead."
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun browse-url-gnome-moz (url &optional new-window)
-  "Ask Mozilla/Netscape to load URL via the GNOME program `gnome-moz-remote'.
+  "Ask Mozilla to load URL via the GNOME program `gnome-moz-remote'.
 Default to the URL around or before point.  The strings in variable
 `browse-url-gnome-moz-arguments' are also passed.