bug#37644: html-href-anchor should have TAB expansion when prompting

["積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>]

reopen 37644
thanks

No. 1:
Nobody would ever want to put file:/// into an HTML document intended
for the Internet. I'm not asking for that.

No. 2:
Everybody needs to be able to put *relative links*,
../../index.html
../index.html
index.html
bla.html
into a HTML document.

That's what I'm asking for.

And that's what the former HTML Helper Mode did fine.

No. 3:

Nobdoy should be encouraged to hardwire fully qualified https links when
a simple relative link to a page in the same directory is called for.


>>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
LI> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

>> C-c C-c h runs the command html-href-anchor (found in mhtml-mode-map),
>> which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘sgml-mode.el’.
>> 
>> Problem is it doesn't have filename expansion turned on.
>> 
>> As often we are putting in relative links into a document,
>> it would be great if we could tab expand even
>> ../../me/bla.html
>> etc.
>> 
>> Entering http[s] links would not be affected.

LI> The command requires an URL, and a file name isn't an URL.  But the
LI> command could prepend a file:// to the file name, I guess, but I'm not
LI> sure that doing file name completion on an input that's really an URL is
LI> useful.  If you start typing http you don't want it to complete to files
LI> starting with "http".

LI> So I'm closing this bug report -- if somebody thinks the command should
LI> work this way, please reopen.

LI> -- 
LI> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
LI>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no