From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: url package Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:28:13 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236469253 1144 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2009 23:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:40:53 +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 Mar 08 00:42:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lg69e-0004yj-IS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:42:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39648 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lg68J-0004rF-0S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:40:43 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.cpinternet!news.posted.cpinternet.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:28:01 -0600 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.61.220.61 Original-X-Trace: sv3-B85TNSQFiENKWjH3fHfjko7GkLj/sq+FYcKX8Kud48h/KvuqN70+RiQ3GtBF+z/DBx4iXbkQX5Ee4Hy!Vp17Q6YNHNrktYR/70jGzfMfD5M24HZqaPo3pOP4pa6u/phVMKF8Pp0rzW31Vt8quYIFTt4equNn!bY8QrcyjyD0Cq3Jx/g== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cpinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@cpinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167451 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62749 Archived-At: Johan Bockgård wrote: > "B. T. Raven" 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-f http://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?