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### 48.2 Activating URLs

`M-x goto-address-mode`

  Activate URLs and e-mail addresses in the current buffer.

You can make Emacs mark out URLs specially in the current buffer, by typing `M-x goto-address-mode`. When this buffer-local minor mode is enabled, it finds all the URLs in the buffer, highlights them, and turns them into clickable buttons. You can follow the URL by typing `C-c RET` (`goto-address-at-point`) while point is on its text; or by clicking with `mouse-2`, or by clicking `mouse-1` quickly (see Mouse References). Following a URL is done by calling `browse-url` as a subroutine (see Browse-URL).

It can be useful to add `goto-address-mode` to mode hooks and hooks for displaying an incoming message (e.g., `rmail-show-message-hook` for Rmail, and `mh-show-mode-hook` for MH-E). This is not needed for Gnus, which has a similar feature of its own.