Re: url package

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Xah Lee wrote:
> On Mar 7, 4:28 pm, "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote:
>> Johan Bockgård wrote:
>>> "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> writes:
>>>> A web site claims that by merely loading this package you can C-x C-f
>>>> on a Url and have its html code loaded into a buffer. I get a new
>>>> buffer with the name of the html file that would be listed by clicking
>>>> on View > Page Source in Firefox but the buffer is empty. What else
>>>> has to be done besides M-x load-library url before opening a buffer
>>>> with the url's source?
>>> M-x url-handler-mode (load-library is not needed since the function is
>>> autoloaded)
>> Thanks, Johan, but it still doesn't work as advertised, at least not on
>> w32 version 22.1
>> M-x browse-url-at-point brings up the web page in Firefox and
>> View>PageSource shows the code, but if I try C-x C-fhttp://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/about/
>> I get an empty buffer named c:/en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/about/
>>
>> Then I tried other web pages and some filled the buffer with html and
>> others didn't. Shouldn't there be some minimal block of html code on any
>> page?
> 
> haven't tried the package you mentioned. However, i it's very easy to
> implement what you want, in about 10 min.
> 
> you can call several external programs such as linx, w3, wget, curl,
> GET, to fetch the the source of a url, then create a buffer and insert
> it there. Just wrap it with shell-command-on-region. I think the
> following tutorial covers it exactly:
> 
> • Elisp Wrapper For Perl Scripts
>   http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_perl_wrapper.html
> 
> a pure elisp solution is also easy. Just call one of those elisp
> packages that fetchs stuff over network. e.g. look at the installation
> instruction in ljupdate mode.
> 
> Getting the url for the input of fetch is easy, by thing-at-point.
> 
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
> 
> ☄

Thanks, Xah. My understanding of Emacs is still quite retarded and so I 
want to keep it simple and stick with what comes out of the box in 
vanilla Emacs, at least for now.