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Make browse-url follow URLs with line breaks?

How can I make browse-url follow URLs with line breaks? Example from RFC 1738: Yes, Jim, I found it under but you can probably pick it up from . Note the warning in…
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your emacs does not come with xwidget support... (Windows 10)

Just unzipped and started using Emacs 25.1, hoping to get a browser running in emacs. The instructions I found had me enter "M-x xwidget-webkit-browse-url" And then I'm asked to complete a command like this: http://editing. Which I do with some…
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How to make browse-url-of-buffer load the same html file in the same tab in Firefox?

When editing a html file (in an Emacs buffer in HTML mode), I often review the file in my default browser (Firefox) by C-c C-v (ie, running browse-url-of-buffer). But every time I run C-c C-v, Firefox opens the file in a new tab so that after making…
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Can org-mode open a link in external browser when using prefix key?

In my Emacs I have set browse-url-browser-function to eww and org-open-at-point (org-return) will open my links using eww as expected. However, I would like to configure org-mode so that when I press prefix + return (C-u RET) the link is opened…
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orgmode open link in system browser or eww

I want orgmode web links to open in my system browser with C-o, and to open in eww with C-u C-o. This seems in line with the function description for org-open-at-point but it doesn't seem to be working. I've tried various permutations of the…
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Double click on a web link results in visiting the link in the default browser

Assume that in the current buffer there is some text like http://emacs.stackexchange.com/. Is it possible to customize Emacs so that double clicking on this text, results in visiting the link by the deafult browser? (i.e., like hyperref in LaTeX).
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Emacs picking the wrong browser

I'm working under org-mode. When I click on a [http://example.com] link, it opens a tab in Firefox as expected. The .emacs config is: '(browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-firefox)) However, for links in the form…
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Org external link - can I indicate which browser/tab to be used

Suppose I have several browsers running at any given time. Google Chrome Google Chrome Canary Chromium Opera Safari How can I indicate in my org mode links [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][GNU Emacs]] which browser should be used when (C-c…
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How to open multiple webpages from org mode?

I have a list of www addresses as a list like: - https://www.nytimes.com - https://www.foxnews.com and so on. I can open single elements with the command org-open-at-point which is bound to the key sequence C-c C-o. A Firefox tab will open on the…
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Pinboard website (i.e., non-Emacs) bookmark editing in Emacs

I recently switched over to pinboard.in for organizing website bookmarks. I'm looking for a way to organize my bookmarks in Emacs. I've installed the pinboard-api package but I can't seem to find any of the pinboard commands in the helm autocomplete…
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How to toggle between browsers?

I set chromium as my default browser by putting the following lines in my init: (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic browse-url-generic-program "chromium") Sometimes I need to browse with Firefox in private mode, which is…
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How can I sign in using Google to Emacs StackExchange to post questions

I am able to browse the Emacs StackExchange site using Emacs with M-x w3m b URL RET I wanted to try out posting questions and answers to the site using Emacs. The main hurdle I am facing is to sign in using my Google account. In a regular browser…
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Inspect element in Firefox from within Emacs

In Firefox, when I right-click anywhere on a web page and select "Inspect Element" from the popup menu, Firefox will open its Developer Tools and show me the properties for that element and other useful information. What I'm hoping to find is an…
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Copy current URL from web browser from Emacs while editing

When editing code or org-mode, I often need the URL of the page I'm viewing in Google Chrome. Is there a way to do this from Emacs? Or with an external helper script if necessary? An example use case would be editing code: # See
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Links open firefox with starting page, instead of link content (linux)

Problem: For some mysterious reason, when I open a link in firefox, a new firefox instance opens. Also note instead of the content of the link, my home-page shows up. Instead I would like a new tab to open in my running instance and actually show…
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