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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/url/url-handlers.el')
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diff --git a/lisp/url/url-handlers.el b/lisp/url/url-handlers.el index 68556d6aa9c..650c610e04c 100644 --- a/lisp/url/url-handlers.el +++ b/lisp/url/url-handlers.el @@ -102,7 +102,16 @@ ;;;###autoload (define-minor-mode url-handler-mode - "Toggle using `url' library for URL filenames (URL Handler mode)." + ;; Can't use "\\[find-file]" below as it produces "[open]": + "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 |