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Re: browse-url and "non-webish" URLs


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: browse-url and "non-webish" URLs
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:39:35 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>> I haven't had time to look into it yet, but I'd like to see the
>> following in browse-url: if the URL refers to a "text file" then use
>> url-insert-file-contents (or if url-handler-mode is ON, just use
>> find-file-other-window).

> Like

>     (require 'url-handlers)

>     (defun browse-url-emacs (url &optional new-window)
>       (let ((file-name-handler-alist
>              (cons (cons url-handler-regexp 'url-file-handler)
>                    file-name-handler-alist)))
>         (if new-window
>             (find-file-other-window url)
>           (find-file url))))

>     (setq browse-url-browser-function
>           '(("\\.el\\'" . browse-url-emacs)
>             ("."        . browse-url-firefox)))

>     (browse-url
>      "http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/download/eight-puzzle.el";)

Wonderful.  I hadn't noticed that browse-url-browser-function can be an
alist of regexp->functions.  How 'bout making it the default?


        Stefan






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