Re: browse-url and "non-webish" URLs

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> (defun browse-url-emacs (url &optional new-window)
>> Installed in the 22 branch.
> This was mostly proof-of-concept.  Using url-file-handler was convenient
> since it sets the mode automatically after fetching the file.

Yes, it does exactly what we want ;-)

> The downside to the above code is that it requires `url-handlers'

That's OK: if you look at the code I installed, it only requires
url-handlers when the function is called, at which point we're going to use
the URL package anyway.

> and that it only works for urls that match url-handler-regexp.

Similar limitations apply to every other browse-url function.


        Stefan