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Re: url-dired.el requires w3


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: url-dired.el requires w3
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:54:53 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> (url-retrieve-synchronously "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/";) opens a dired buffer
> in `url-dired-minor-mode'.  Pressing RET on a file there calls
> `url-dired-find-file', yet url-dired-find-file uses `w3-fetch' and
> `w3-open-local' which are not part of Emacs.  The following patch
> changes it to use `find-file'.  w3 has its own w3-dired.el file, so
> users of w3 will still have that functionality.

>       * url-dired.el: Don't require w3-fetch and w3-open-local.
>       (url-dired-find-file): Use `find-file'.  Doc fix.
>       (url-dired-find-file-mouse, url-dired-minor-mode): Doc fix.

It's good to remove this dependency on W3, but `find-file' will not work
unless the user enabled url-handler-mode.


        Stefan




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