Re: browse-url and "non-webish" URLs

[Johan Bockgård]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> and that it only works for urls that match url-handler-regexp.
>
> Similar limitations apply to every other browse-url function.

`url' knows about more protocols than does `url-handler-regexp' (there
are handlers for irc, mailto, news, ...). browse-url-emacs could pass
them on (if it doesn't it should at least signal an error).


Btw, browse-url-w3 runs inside Emacs and it obeys the `new-window'
argument

    [...]
    (if (browse-url-maybe-new-window new-window)
        (w3-fetch-other-window url)
      (w3-fetch url)))

-- 
Johan Bockgård