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Re: eww
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Bastien |
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Re: eww |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:39:27 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
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>
> `browse-web' is the alias for `eww'.
>
> That's a good, natural name. However, the Emacs manual mentions
> `eww', not `browse-web'. I think that is a bug and needs to be
> fixed.
Before we go and fix the manual, I think the way people chose
the program for browsing the web can be made simpler.
Having both `browse-url' and `browse-web' is confusing IMHO.
What about:
1. replace the `browse-web' alias with `emacs-web-browser'.
2. let `browse-url' use `browse-url-graphical' or `browse-url-text'
depending on whether (display-graphic-p) and on a a user option
(if the user always want to use a text browser, for example.)
3. set the options `browse-url-graphical-alternatives' and
`browse-url-text-alternatives' with `define-alternatives'
which would offer relevant choices depending on what the user
can use on its system.
When hitting `browse-url' for the first time in a terminal, the user
would have the choice between eww, w3 or w3m, for example.
When hitting `browse-url' for the first time in a window system,
the user would first have the choice to browse with a text browser,
or a window browser, then between (text or window) browsers.
C-u M-x browse-url RET would let him pick up another alternative
by passing the prefix universal argument to browse-url-graphical
or browse-url-text (for now the prefix tells whether to open a
new window/tab in the browser.)
It's probably a lot of work, but it would makes life easier for
users. For now they rely on `browse-url' and will hardly hear
of `browse-web', wondering why there is a separate interface.
--
Bastien
- Re: eww, (continued)
- Re: eww, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/18
- Re: eww, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/16
- Re: eww, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/14
- Re: eww, Bastien, 2014/01/14
- Re: eww, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/14
- Re: eww, Bastien, 2014/01/13
- Re: eww, Juanma Barranquero, 2014/01/13
Re: eww, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/13
- Re: eww, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/01/13
- Re: eww, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/14
- Re: eww,
Bastien <=
- Re: eww, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/15