From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rename `eww' to `web' Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:51:39 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bo6j2itw.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8738s087wj.fsf@gmail.com> <87bo6mjv4s.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871u7gavwx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87obaj39sc.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372902726 4340 80.91.229.3 (4 Jul 2013 01:52:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 01:52:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 04 03:52:07 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYiK-0008Ho-OD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 03:52:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49719 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYiK-0000od-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58799) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYiH-0000oV-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYiG-0002w0-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYiF-0002vu-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYi8-00084b-Qt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 03:51:52 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-72-93-34-251.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.93.34.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 03:51:52 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by pool-72-93-34-251.bstnma.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 03:51:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-72-93-34-251.bstnma.east.verizon.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JebFgG9iHLI5JjlB2zBd9em4fd0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161501 Archived-At: On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 20:06:02 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote: RS> Most users just want to enter a URL and browse it. So my RS> main suggestion is to make `C-x C-f' on a URL open a web browser like RS> `eww', or call `browse-url', or do something like that. RS> This would be a convenient interface. We just have to solve the RS> problem of ambiguity: a file name can look like a URL. We could make RS> some way to indicate it is a file name -- perhaps some way to quote RS> the colon that would follow the URL type. I think it's pretty easy to tell a URL (we already do that in many packages), and the user can always use `find-file-literally'. So I think this is not going to be a problem and doesn't require any special treatment. Just in case we could check if there is a file named the same as the URL, since a stat call is cheap. But otherwise this should be DWIM for the users. Ted