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Subject: Re: file-remote-p broken 
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Michael Kifer writes:
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>While we are at it, here is a related suggestion for efs:
>
>how about allowing url-style format:
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>    ftp://user@machine/....
>
>Would be also nice if C-xC-f url would pass it on to the default browser
>(in case of http, gopher, and other non-ftp urls).
>
>Is it hard to add?

  This would basically boil down to uncommenting and fixing the
file-name-handler-alist stuff that has been in Emacs-W3 for a long time,
but never really worked very well.  Anyone want to volunteer to work on
this for XEmacs 20.2 / Emacs/W3 3.1?

-Bill P.

