Further eww URL DWIM tweaks

* net/eww.el (eww): Interpret anything that looks like a protocol
designator as a full URL.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 674b26716a4..679de0ce6aa 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-01-11  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
+
+        * net/eww.el (eww): Interpret anything that looks like a protocol
+        designator as a full URL.
+
 2015-01-10  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
 
         * net/shr.el (shr-urlify): Don't bother the user about
diff --git a/lisp/net/eww.el b/lisp/net/eww.el
index 6a6da17d1ce..71094b1b66d 100644
--- a/lisp/net/eww.el
+++ b/lisp/net/eww.el
@@ -255,7 +255,9 @@ word(s) will be searched for via `eww-search-prefix'."
         ((string-match-p "\\`ftp://" url)
          (user-error "FTP is not supported."))
         (t
-         (if (or (string-match "\\`https?:" url)
+         ;; Anything that starts with something that vaguely looks
+         ;; like a protocol designator is interpreted as a full URL.
+         (if (or (string-match "\\`[A-Za-z]+:" url)
                  ;; Also try to match "naked" URLs like
                  ;; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free software
                  (string-match "\\`[A-Za-z_]+\\.[A-Za-z._]+/" url)