Homepage: http://github.com/rolandwalker/browse-url-dwim
Author: Roland Walker
Updated:
Context-sensitive external browse URL or Internet search
Quickstart
(require 'browse-url-dwim)
(browse-url-dwim-mode 1)
place the cursor on a URL
press "C-c b"
select some text
press "C-c g"
;; to turn off confirmations
(setq browse-url-dwim-always-confirm-extraction nil)
Explanation
This small library for calling external browsers combines some of
the functionality of `browse-url' and `thingatpt'.
Three interactive commands are provided:
`browse-url-dwim'
`browse-url-dwim-search'
`browse-url-dwim-guess'
each of which tries to extract URLs or meaningful terms from
context in the current buffer, and prompts for input when unable
to do so.
The context-sensitive matching of `browse-url-dwim' tries to do
_less_ overall than the default behavior of `thingatpt', on the
theory that `thingatpt' matches too liberally. However,
`browse-url-dwim' does recognize some URLs that the default
`browse-url' ignores, such as "www.yahoo.com" without the
leading "http://".
To use `browse-url-dwim', add the following to your ~/.emacs file
(require 'browse-url-dwim) ; load library
(browse-url-dwim-mode 1) ; install aliases and keybindings
Then place the cursor on a URL and press
C-c b ; b for browse
or select some text and press
C-c g ; g for Google
or (equivalently)
M-x browse RET
M-x google RET
Outside the USA
If you are outside the USA, you will want to customize
`browse-url-dwim-permitted-tlds' so that your favorite
top-level domains will be recognized in context. You
may also wish to customize `browse-url-dwim-search-url'
to point at an appropriate search engine.
See Also
M-x customize-group RET browse-url-dwim RET
M-x customize-group RET browse-url RET
Notes
To control which browser is invoked, see the underlying library
`browse-url'.
By default, the minor mode binds and aliases `browse-url-dwim-guess'
for Internet search, but the user might prefer to bind
`browse-url-dwim-search', which has less DWIM:
(define-key browse-url-dwim-map (kbd "C-c g") 'browse-url-dwim-search)
Compatibility and Requirements
GNU Emacs version 24.4-devel : yes, at the time of writing
GNU Emacs version 24.3 : yes
GNU Emacs version 23.3 : yes
GNU Emacs version 22.2 : yes, with some limitations
GNU Emacs version 21.x and lower : unknown
Uses if present: string-utils.el
Bugs
`thing-at-point-short-url-regexp' requires at least two dots in the hostname,
so "domain.com" cannot be detected at point, whereas the following will be:
"www.domain.com" or "http://domain.com"
`url-normalize-url' doesn't do much. Multiple slashes should be removed
for a start.
TODO
Support thing-nearest-point, with fallback.
Test various schemes, esp "file:", "mailto:", and "ssh:".
Extract multiple URLs from region and browse to all.
License
Simplified BSD License
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