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Following URLs
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`M-x browse-url <RET> URL <RET>'
     Load a URL into a Web browser.

   The Browse-URL package provides facilities for following URLs
specifying links on the World Wide Web.  Usually this works by invoking
a web browser, but you can, for instance, arrange to invoke
`compose-mail' from `mailto:' URLs.

   The general way to use this feature is to type `M-x browse-url',
which displays a specified URL.  If point is located near a plausible
URL, that URL is used as the default.  Other commands are available
which you might like to bind to keys, such as `browse-url-at-point' and
`browse-url-at-mouse'.

   You can customize Browse-URL's behavior via various options in the
`browse-url' Customize group, particularly
`browse-url-browser-function'.  You can invoke actions dependent on the
type of URL by defining `browse-url-browser-function' as an association
list.  The package's commentary available via `C-h p' provides more
information.  Packages with facilities for following URLs should always
go through Browse-URL, so that the customization options for Browse-URL
will affect all browsing in Emacs.