Thanks for all the responses! Mark, where could we find the patch you mentioned? I wouldn't know how to test/update it, but maybe someone else on the list has the requisite hacking skills...

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26 2015, Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I make it so that hitting RET on a hyperlink follows it? Is there a
> setting analogous to org-return-follows-link? I often have links in
> incoming emails, and I'd like to be able to open them in my browser with
> one keystroke.

BTW: the interesting thing is that in text/plain content id: links already
do something -- and e.g. https?: do not. in text/html content I get
'No usable browser found'(*) when pressing RET on top of http: link so it
must be doing something ;)

Tomi

(*) Note to self: hack something to show the link using (message ...) in this case.

>
> Thanks!