Re: BBDB autodialing

Looks like a useful general solution, thanks for the tip. I'll look
into it for certain.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:25 AM, Roland Winkler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed Apr 4 2018 Bob Newell wrote:
>> My default Emacs browser is w3m. I suspect many Emacsers have that
>> or eww as the default, and neither handles tel: (or at least I
>> don't know how to make that happen).
>
> That's my whole point about browse-url-browser-function.
> From the docstring:
>
>    If the value is not a function it should be a list of pairs
>    (REGEXP . FUNCTION).  In this case the function called will be
>    the one associated with the first REGEXP which matches the
>    current URL.  The function is passed the URL and any other args
>    of ‘browse-url’.  The last regexp should probably be "." to
>    specify a default browser.
>
> This can give you very fine control:
>
>   - use w3m with the URLs it can display well.
>   - send other URLs to firefox
>   - use tel: with browse-url-xdg-open
>
>   - you name it!



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Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

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