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bug#58049: 29.0.50; Obsolete url schemes "info" and "man"
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#58049: 29.0.50; Obsolete url schemes "info" and "man" |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Sep 2022 16:30:19 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:
> I can imagine many uses for this. For instance, a completion table
> could provide some kind of "further info" property so you can preview
> the documentation of an item mid-completion.
Why on Earth would you use URL syntax for something like that? Just add
the "further info" property and link that up with a closure from a text
property or whatever
I'm all for retiring the info: and man: schemes (since they are 100%
useless), but don't really see the need to do so piecemeal -- when Emacs
grows a new URL library that functions better than the current one,
it'll only support http(s) and file, so all this junk will disappear in
one fell swoop.
bug#58049: 29.0.50; Obsolete url schemes "info" and "man", Jean Louis, 2022/09/25