From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: 60213@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60213: [PATCH] Copy Info-goto-node-web URL as kill with prefix argument
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:04:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83cz8ecgs7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=6tPc-TFZGMLkQcEFMWwMhw2j1UtDmwG8gt9VP4052bw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 19 Dec 2022 22:44:33 -0600)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 22:44:33 -0600
>
> The attached patch make `Info-goto-node-web' copy the URL as kill with a
> prefix argument, instead of opening it with `browse-url'. I've seen
> this feature requested a couple of times now by various people.
>
> Since `Info-goto-node-web' is new in Emacs 29, this could perhaps be
> considered safe enough for emacs-29, but master is also fine, of course.
I prefer master. We aren't even sure how popular the new command will
be, and this addition modifies its behavior in very non-trivial ways.
I'm not aware of many command in Emacs that, given an argument, just
copy a name to the kill-ring instead of acting on that name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-20 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-20 4:44 bug#60213: [PATCH] Copy Info-goto-node-web URL as kill with prefix argument Stefan Kangas
2022-12-20 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-12-20 17:24 ` Drew Adams
2022-12-21 1:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-12-21 6:01 ` Drew Adams
2022-12-21 8:36 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-12-21 16:07 ` Drew Adams
2022-12-21 8:30 ` Juri Linkov
2022-12-21 16:05 ` Drew Adams
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