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Re: Rename `eww' to `web'
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Rename `eww' to `web' |
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Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:51:39 -0400 |
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On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 20:06:02 -0400 Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
RS> Most users just want to enter a URL and browse it. So my
RS> main suggestion is to make `C-x C-f' on a URL open a web browser like
RS> `eww', or call `browse-url', or do something like that.
RS> This would be a convenient interface. We just have to solve the
RS> problem of ambiguity: a file name can look like a URL. We could make
RS> some way to indicate it is a file name -- perhaps some way to quote
RS> the colon that would follow the URL type.
I think it's pretty easy to tell a URL (we already do that in many
packages), and the user can always use `find-file-literally'. So I
think this is not going to be a problem and doesn't require any special
treatment. Just in case we could check if there is a file named the
same as the URL, since a stat call is cheap. But otherwise this should
be DWIM for the users.
Ted
- 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', Richard Stallman, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web',
Ted Zlatanov <=
- 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
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Stefan Monnier, 2013/07/05