From 1678d3599bd3b4e1abac15af54d82202b842428b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:50:54 +0200 Subject: Mention url-handler-mode in the Emacs manual * doc/emacs/misc.texi (Browse-URL): Mention url-handler-mode (bug#30389). * lisp/url/url-handlers.el (url-handler-mode): Improve doc string. --- lisp/url/url-handlers.el | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'lisp/url/url-handlers.el') diff --git a/lisp/url/url-handlers.el b/lisp/url/url-handlers.el index 68556d6aa9c..ed0402a5137 100644 --- a/lisp/url/url-handlers.el +++ b/lisp/url/url-handlers.el @@ -102,7 +102,15 @@ ;;;###autoload (define-minor-mode url-handler-mode - "Toggle using `url' library for URL filenames (URL Handler mode)." + "Handle URLs as if they were file names throughout Emacs. +After switching on this minor mode, Emacs file primitives handle +URLs. For instance: + + (file-exists-p \"https://www.gnu.org/\") + => t + +and `C-x C-f https://www.gnu.org/ RET' will give you the HTML at +that URL in a buffer." :global t :group 'url ;; Remove old entry, if any. (setq file-name-handler-alist -- cgit v1.2.3