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Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

  > >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
  > 
  >  Kai> WIBNI if down-mouse-3 over a button would pop up a menu for
  >  Kai> doing useful stuff with the thing represented by the button?
  > 
  >  Kai> On a URL, this could be `View using {w3,netscape,lynx}', 
  > 
  > Do you really need something more for URLs than allowed for by
  > `browse-url-browser-function' (which could even pop up a menu of
  > choices)?

[M-x customize-variable RET browse-url-browser-function RET...]
Well, there are lots of choices for browse-url-browser-function, this
is probably more than sufficient.  Only additional wish would be a way
to retrieve the data and store it on the local disk, in whatever
fashion.  (Using w3 or wget or whatever to retrieve it.)

kai
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