URLs in man pages not clickable

URLs in man pages not clickable

[Dan Jacobson]

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. Yes, they've
been underlined from before URLs were born I know.
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Re: URLs in man pages not clickable

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 05:32:30 +0800
> 
> 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.

Re: URLs in man pages not clickable

[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