Re: URLs in man pages not clickable

[bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

>> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
>> 
>> On debian I do M-x man splat and I see lots of urls, but they don't
>> light-up when the mouse goes over them so I can visit them with the
>> middle mouse button, even though they are underlined.
>
> I think ffap.el can do this for you.

I think he wanted it to work out-of-the-box, but this should do it
also:

,----[ C-h f goto-address RET ]
| goto-address is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `goto-addr'.
| (goto-address)
| 
| Sets up goto-address functionality in the current buffer.
| Allows user to use mouse/keyboard command to click to go to a URL
| or to send e-mail.
| By default, goto-address binds to mouse-2 and C-c RET.
| 
| Also fontifies the buffer appropriately (see `goto-address-fontify-p' and
| `goto-address-highlight-p' for more information).
`----

/Johan