bug#42768: emacs http://example.com

bug#42768: emacs http://example.com

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

In bug#40269 the emacs maintainers probably feel file:/// isn't so
common, so not worth recognizing.

But http, and https are certainly common.

So how about emacs make an appropriate response when somebody does
$ emacs http://www.example.com/

"Use M-x make-directory RET RET to create the directory and its parents"
is not an appropriate response.

As to what is, you decide.

bug#42768: emacs http://example.com

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> In bug#40269 the emacs maintainers probably feel file:/// isn't so
> common, so not worth recognizing.
>
> But http, and https are certainly common.
>
> So how about emacs make an appropriate response when somebody does
> $ emacs http://www.example.com/

No, that would be rather confusing.

But you've reminded me that you can't use Emacs as a MIME handler for
URLs, and that should really be possible.

So I've added the trivial eww-browse command to Emacs 28.1, so that you
can now say

$ emacs -f eww-browse https://gnu.org

and register Emacs as a handler for the text/x-uri MIME type with

emacs -f eww-browse %u

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