Subject: bug#7551: closed (Re: bug#7531: FFAP vs. external browser)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:18:03 +0000

Your bug report

#7531: FFAP C-x d on URL should call external browser

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#7531: FFAP vs. external browser
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:14:38 -0500
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tags 7531 wontfix
stop

[email-masked] wrote:

> I would like to propose that C-u C-x C-f
> will call the external browser when the cursor is on top of a URL,

No. As well as ffap, you can look at url-handler-mode.

Subject: FFAP C-x d should not be URL sensitive
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:45:00 +0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Say, for FFAP, why is C-x d also URL sensitive? C-x C-f already knows
about URLs. Why would somebody want to run dired on a URL? (FTP is the
only thing that comes to mind.) So C-x d should "give it a rest" and
default to plain local dired, no?