Re: URL syntax (was: Re: Tramp, "[]" in file names, and file-expand-wildcards)

[William M. Perry]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>       After calling
>     (url-setup-file-name-handlers) manually, I could do C-x C-v
>     http://www.gnu.org/ and it did the right thing.
> 
> Why is it necessary to do that manually?  Is that a bug, or a feature?

It isn't enabled automatically so that people don't get bitten by any bugs
in the support.  I think there must still be some lurking somewhere
because Gnus freaks out occasionally trying to do (file-exists-p nil)

-bp
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