Re: ffap.el vs. offline user

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Using ffap, I put the cursor on ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org and do C-x
> C-f. In *Messages*, we see
> Pinging ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org (Non-profit Organization)...
> byte-code: ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org/discard Temporary failure in name resolution
> along with the punishing flash for doing something wrong.
>
> Why of course, I am offline. I want it to act like I had the cursor on
> http://ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org which will register a request via
> http_proxy to wwwoffle to fetch next time I dialup.
>
> Looking in ffap.el for anything about "off line" users, we find none
> and tinker with perhpas (set-variable (quote ffap-machine-p-local) (quote 
> accept))
> no help there either.

Since ".org" is a known top-level domain (evident by "Non-profit
Organization"), I would try (setq ffap-machine-p-known 'accept).
Does that help?


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