Org mode has this nice thing where you can click a link in the Emacs buffer to open it in your browser. Turns out that’s not some special org-only behavior. It’s goto-address-mode, a minor mode that activates URLs and email addresses in the current buffer.
You can manually launch it with M-x goto-address-mode
. It might be easier to automatically enable it for certain modes. You do that with a hook.
I want links to be available when reviewing notes and blog posts. Since I write those notes in a number of formats, I should add the hook one of the general major modes. text-mode is a good start.
Now I can open links from my Markdown and reStructuredText files with a click! Or a C-c <RET>
.
goto-address-mode
key bindings
Key | Function | Action |
---|---|---|
C-c <RET> |
goto-address-at-point |
Opens the link under point |
I might add the hook for prog-mode later, if I find myself wanting to click URLs in source code.
Backlinks
Added to vault 2024-01-15. Updated on 2024-02-01