Re: Open urls in a browser

[Richard Riley]

notbob@bb.nothome.com writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>
>> Cursor on url. Hit f4 to open using your emacs browser (whatever that is
>> configured to) or C-u f4 to open in your desktop browser (firefox here).
>
> Other than defining the F4 key, what does all that do?  I put cursor
> on link, enter M-x browser-url (completion works at bro) and Seamonkey
> opens to the link.  All this by emacs default.  (how it chooses SM
> over FF or Konqueror is beyond me)
>
> nb

I said what it does in the text above.

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| >> Cursor on url. Hit f4 to open using your emacs browser (whatever that is
| >> configured to) or C-u f4 to open in your desktop browser (firefox here).
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It also works in w3m buffers e.g in html rendered emails.

Try it and see.

You might need to include thingatpt+.el