Re: Perplexing dired behavior on "R": "pinging..."

[Steven Arntson]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> Using emacs 24.4.1.
>> 
>> In a dired buffer, I "% m" to mark all files containing ".org". The
>> first of these, for instance, is called "animals.org". Once the
>> files
>> are marked, I intend to move them to a new directory, and I type
>> "R". Then the minibuffer says,
>> 
>> "Pinging animals.org (Non-profit Organization)..."
>
> Good one!  If you get that behavior after you start Emacs
> using `emacs -Q' (no init file) then please file that as a bug:
> `M-x report-emacs-bug'.  Sounds like it is picking up the
> URL at point and trying to get to it.  Quite a "feature"!

Restarting with -Q appeared to fix the problem. However, then when I
restarted again normally, the problem remained fixed! So I'm left
thinking that what I really needed to do was restart. Lesson learned ...

steven