2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index a9159efe5e1..fae9ac0b5c9 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-09-25  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * ffap.el (ffap-fixup-url): Don't call url-normalize-url.  (Bug#898)
+
 2008-09-25  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
 
         * vc.el (vc-mark-resolved): Move message here from
diff --git a/lisp/ffap.el b/lisp/ffap.el
index 5d9b628a2c2..72efcb33542 100644
--- a/lisp/ffap.el
+++ b/lisp/ffap.el
@@ -633,8 +633,9 @@ Looks at `ffap-ftp-default-user', returns \"\" for \"localhost\"."
    ((and ffap-url-unwrap-local (ffap-url-unwrap-local url)))
    ((and ffap-url-unwrap-remote ffap-ftp-regexp
          (ffap-url-unwrap-remote url)))
-   ((fboundp 'url-normalize-url)        ; may autoload url (part of w3)
-    (url-normalize-url url))
+   ;; All this seems to do is remove any trailing "#anchor" part (Bug#898).
+;;;   ((fboundp 'url-normalize-url)     ; may autoload url (part of w3)
+;;;    (url-normalize-url url))
    (url)))