Re: url-dired.el requires w3

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> * 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.

> I thought so, too, at first, but the filenames are in tramp/ange-ftp
> format: "/address@hidden:/README".  The old code changed remote
> filenames into URLs so that `w3-fetch' could deal with them.

Hmm.. indeed url-dired isn't what I thought.  The file needs
a `commentary' section to explain what it does (and intends to do).

It seems it's only used via url-find-file-dired called from url-file (in
url-file.el).  Is that right?


        Stefan