Subject: bug#30389: 26.0.91; url-handler-mode needs to be documented

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:51:15 +0200

Andy Moreton <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> url-handler-mode is not documented in any manual shipped with
>>> Emacs. This shall be done.
>>
>> The doc string isn't very helpful either.  I have no idea what it's
>> trying to say here.  :-)
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Toggle using `url' library for URL filenames (URL Handler mode).
>
> The doc is indeed not very helpful. The code shows it is toggling
> support for file handlers which allow URLs to the treated as filenames:
>
> (file-exists-p "https://www.gnu.org/")
> => nil
> (url-handler-mode)
> => t
> (file-exists-p "https://www.gnu.org/")
> => t

I've now mentioned the mode in the manual and fixed the doc string in
Emacs 28.

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