Madhu <enometh@meer.net> writes:

Hi Madhu,

> Thanks, something like the attached? the implementation of "turn on
> url-handler-mode temporarily" looks a bit gross but i guess it can't
> be avoided.  should call to turn it on be outside the
> minibuffer-setup-hook?

Perhaps, I haven't tested. However, the leading comment doesn't match
anymore the implementation (default-directory is let-bound now); better
you'll adjust it.

I've checked the problem in ffap.el. It looks like we could use a much
simpler solution: implement unhandled-file-name-directory in
ffap--url-file-handler. Something like