[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Linking To files

[Sacha Chua]

"Paul D. Kraus" <address@hidden> writes:

> This works well now is there a way to force it to open certain kinds
> of files in emacs instead of launching them? For instance when i
> link to a Perl script (some file.pl) when i tab to it and hit enter
> it launches the program in a command window rather then opening it
> for editing.

One way to easily pick up a hyperlink is to open the file in question
and do M-x planner-annotation-as-kill . (Note that this gets the
position URI now instead of just the filename. You can change this
behavior by customizing planner-annotation-functions and deleting the
-with-position part.)

When you figure out what the hyperlink should look like, then you can
usually figure out how to type other hyperlinks to similar resources.
For example, bbdb hyperlinks...
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