From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:00:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6rvixc8.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: et14ca$lnr$1@reader2.panix.com
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:40:10 +0000 (UTC) kj wrote:
> Is there an Emacs command that would load a given URL into an Emacs
> buffer?
>
> Normally I would 1) switch to a browser; 2) visit the desired URL;
> 3) use the browser's "Save as..." command to save the URL's content;
> 4) switch back to Emacs; and 5) open the downloaded file, but this
> but this song-and-dance can get cumbersome after a while.
Make Emacs your browser :) http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/
If you want to do it from lisp there's the url.el package that is
part of Emacs 22, there's always the quick and dirty solution with a
shell and wget.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-11 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-11 14:40 How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer? kj
2007-03-11 16:00 ` David Hansen [this message]
2007-03-11 17:45 ` Peter Danenberg
[not found] ` <mailman.800.1173631525.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-03-12 0:49 ` Robert D. Crawford
2007-03-12 10:25 ` Hadron
2007-03-12 10:42 ` Robert D. Crawford
2007-03-12 11:14 ` David Hansen
2007-03-12 13:59 ` Peter Danenberg
[not found] ` <mailman.832.1173698660.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-03-12 15:04 ` Robert D. Crawford
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