From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jidanni@jidanni.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: shortest amount of keystrokes to see URL in an external browser Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:12:49 +0800 Message-ID: <87wrgigjm6.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308502136 20147 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2011 16:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:48:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 19 18:48:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QYLB6-0005Ql-F1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:48:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYLB5-0001m2-Ls for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:48:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51243) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYFvz-0003tQ-P8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYFvy-00050t-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from caiajhbdcahe.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.74]:58940 helo=homiemail-a2.g.dreamhost.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYFvy-00050f-BH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: from homiemail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624A8280069 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:12:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=jidanni.org; h=from:to:subject :date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=jidanni.org ; b=oGWUOg26Rn2WI1o6hl3wDEAGc35N3Zg8ajkUvwD+UNiakXYT62vFDpx5tJ1B +HiFKbJOcUcwGFDPGqGYRbChAENlImKYIGpMKRoWLZ8AOlZTu+fp05X0aMRc3iLZ zK0PJQjDEEaqMuN0/ZTk3mVABXc3XNB2dPCFD4YFq/VTmL8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=jidanni.org; h=from:to :subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= jidanni.org; bh=Iy+Ha/7DzFFCoC6CU53FbM56KC8=; b=mEWVdoGuObRwMuWp Vv8BBaHCISEKqYxmOJPu/jILxAINWZqY0isoGrp9WNBUlqC7D+jThvka8ZCKnXIV 7Fm1ujrKn+eeh4qLGocaA1HDlgKMqJ+GJZJmydWXbcGBj/bpiHA4e5ERZnvHqHvr Hg7jX2G7DFomAeLdw7a9b0U2JZo= Original-Received: from jidanni.org (218-163-4-180.dynamic.hinet.net [218.163.4.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jidanni@jidanni.org) by homiemail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AAB24280063 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:12:51 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.97.132.74 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:41:55 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81363 Archived-At: Let's say you are viewing or editing file.txt and there is a URL http://example.org/ that you would like to visit in an external browser. Well with FFAP installed, C-x C-f upon it would get you there in an internal browser, but if one wants to see it in an external browser, a lot more work will be involved. C-u C-x C-f of course does something different. Note I am talking about .txt files, and not mail messages like these, where one could use M runs the command browse-url-firefox etc. At least with my http://jidanni.org/comp/configuration/ .