Re: Any way to tell Emacs how to open specific URIs?

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

Hi Jean,

> browse-url-handler is called URLl handler but in reality it then
> handles rather URIs, not only URLs and if feature is new and still in
> development, maybe you should reconsider the naming of the variable.

Well, in reality it not only handles URIs but any string passed to
`browse-url'.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq browse-url-handlers
      ;; I wanna read my lorem ipsums in text-mode.
      '(("lorem ipsum" .
         (lambda (text &rest _ignored)
           (let ((buf (get-buffer-create "Lorem Ipsum")))
             (set-buffer buf)
             (erase-buffer)
             (insert text)
             (text-mode)
             (pop-to-buffer buf))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Fun aside, I think the name is appropriate because

  a) it is part of browse-url.el and as such must have the browse-url
     prefix anyway,
  b) its main use are URLs because what else would you pass to
     `browse-url'?

Bye,
Tassilo