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Re: How to get ido-find-file to open DOIs in browser (like URLs)?


From: Marius Hofert
Subject: Re: How to get ido-find-file to open DOIs in browser (like URLs)?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:07:09 +0200

Hi Phillip,

that's of course a nice workaround.

Thanks & cheers,

Marius

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Phillip Lord
<phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> The standard display guidelines for DOIs now state that the URL form
> should always be used. So, the best solution to this is fix the DOI
> first. Then use ffap which plugs into ido, if I remember correctly!
>
> Phil
>
> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:
>> I often use C-x C-f (ido-find-file) to open links/URLs in the browser.
>> I am wondering how one could get the same behavior when the point is
>> on DOIs (digital object identifier). This is of the form
>> 10.1016/j.csda.2008.05.019, for example, and should open
>> http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2008.05.019. There are some regular
>> expressions posted on stackoverflow to match (a larger number) of
>> DOIs.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marius
>>
>>
>>
>
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