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Re: Rename `eww' to `web'
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Rename `eww' to `web' |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Jul 2013 20:06:02 -0400 |
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
But all of the above imply there's a tool intervening between you and
the URL, and you're trying to discover the tool's name (the command name
in Emacs).
That's a very common kind of case in Emacs.
Most users just want to enter a URL and browse it. So my
main suggestion is to make `C-x C-f' on a URL open a web browser like
`eww', or call `browse-url', or do something like that.
This would be a convenient interface. We just have to solve the
problem of ambiguity: a file name can look like a URL. We could make
some way to indicate it is a file name -- perhaps some way to quote
the colon that would follow the URL type.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', (continued)
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Juri Linkov, 2013/07/04
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/07/05
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Richard Stallman, 2013/07/05
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/07/06
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Juanma Barranquero, 2013/07/06
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Josh, 2013/07/04
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Richard Stallman, 2013/07/05
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web',
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- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Andreas Schwab, 2013/07/04
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Katsumi Yamaoka, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Glenn Morris, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Katsumi Yamaoka, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Jambunathan K, 2013/07/04
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/07/04
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Jambunathan K, 2013/07/04
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Stefan Monnier, 2013/07/04
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/04