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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: emacsq <laszlomail@protonmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why is goto-address-mode not enabled by default everywhere?
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 17:27:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6cknjpr.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4o6wl2JVs2Y9WqbJZg26kHUS7HLAWR6Fb1NeDo-_wwVEQdjJru1MXTyhMg-xxKz2kYUyLNpKWVZsl0RPhsqBPyC7L8jzWKhif7G23djos7k=@protonmail.com> (emacsq's message of "Sun, 17 Apr 2022 09:07:40 +0000")

emacsq <laszlomail@protonmail.com> writes:

> BTW, I see no great harm in highlighting this. It indicates that it's
> an url and helps to see the code constructs an url, and if someone
> browses C code and sees sprintf then he obviously knows what sprintf
> does, so he'll know the url won't work without parameter substitution
> anyway.
>
> If the link is clicked then you get a 404 page for a non existent
> color, so it's just a broken link, nothing tragic.

It is fontified in the link face, which makes the fontification of the
string containing it very confusing.

And why is it necessary to shove this confusing, incorrect semantic
information into the face of the user?



      reply	other threads:[~2022-04-17  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-17  8:17 Why is goto-address-mode not enabled by default everywhere? emacsq
2022-04-17  8:33 ` Po Lu
2022-04-17  8:41   ` emacsq
2022-04-17  9:28     ` Po Lu
2022-04-17  9:35       ` emacsq
2022-04-17  9:42         ` Andreas Schwab
2022-04-17 10:12         ` Philipp Stephani
2022-04-17 17:03           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-17  9:07   ` emacsq
2022-04-17  9:27     ` Po Lu [this message]

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