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| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/net/browse-url.el | 4 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ for abbrevs that have them. * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 27.1 +** Browse-url +*** The function 'browse-url-emacs' can now visit a URL in selected window. +It now treats the optional 2nd argument to mean that the URL should be +shown in the currently selected window. + ** Ecomplete *** The ecomplete sorting has changed to a decay-based algorithm. This can be controlled by the new `ecomplete-sort-predicate' variable. diff --git a/lisp/net/browse-url.el b/lisp/net/browse-url.el index 3b5169d4734..bdedcb2bd3e 100644 --- a/lisp/net/browse-url.el +++ b/lisp/net/browse-url.el @@ -1243,7 +1243,9 @@ used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'." ;;;###autoload (defun browse-url-emacs (url &optional same-window) - "Ask Emacs to load URL into a buffer and show it in another window." + "Ask Emacs to load URL into a buffer and show it in another window. +Optional argument SAME-WINDOW non-nil means show the URL in the +currently selected window instead." (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: ")) (require 'url-handlers) (let ((file-name-handler-alist |