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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: 42431@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42431: 28.0.50; browse-url-of-dired-file confusing messaging
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:37:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1t7l2il.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9ijl2ol.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:34:02 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> All this is very confusing, because the doc string of the command is
>
> --
> In Dired, ask a WWW browser to display the file named on this line.
> --
>
> So it should just call `browse-url' on the file:// URL, and not do
> anything about these buffers?

Ah, it's because of this --

(defvar browse-url-default-handlers
  '(("\\`mailto:" . browse-url--mailto)
    ("\\`man:" . browse-url--man)
    (browse-url--non-html-file-url-p . browse-url-emacs))

browse-url on a file that doesn't have .html in it will now not open a
browser at all, but instead an Emacs buffer.

In any case, the messaging is misleading and the buffer name is
confusing.

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





  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-19 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-19 19:34 bug#42431: 28.0.50; browse-url-of-dired-file confusing messaging Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-07-19 19:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-07-27 22:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-08  7:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-08 10:05     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-08 10:22       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-09  9:35         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-09  9:45           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-09 14:05             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-09 14:08               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-13  7:00             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-13  8:51               ` Paul Eggert
2022-10-13 10:35                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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