Subject: bug#18986: #18986 Design bug in browse-url.el: browse-url-can-use-xdg-open's logic uses overly strict assumption

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:42:40 +0200

> From: Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:51:43 +0100
> 
> 25.3, can't follow master at the moment.

Can you look at the latest pretest of 26.1?  It's on alpha.gnu.org.

> Is it already fixed?

The code is definitely different from what you show.  It's supposed to
be fixed, but I don't know enough about that stuff to say, so it would
be good if you could take a look at the current code.