From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rename `eww' to `web' Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 02:55:22 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zju0v9xx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <8738s087wj.fsf@gmail.com> <87bo6mjv4s.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871u7gavwx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87obaj39sc.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4btxkb7gw7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k3l72z81.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87obaixhkr.fsf@informatimago.com> <2jd2qxsxlk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ip0oy49k.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373069053 31412 80.91.229.3 (6 Jul 2013 00:04:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 00:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Emacs developers To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 06 02:04:14 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 1UvFz2-00088x-UR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 02:04:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvFz2-0000Yd-8y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58112) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvFyz-0000YT-5L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:04:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvFyx-0000fx-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:04:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhost.com ([69.163.218.105]:47086 helo=ps18281.dreamhostps.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvFyx-0000bh-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A604B258B9E91C; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 17:04:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat, 6 Jul 2013 01:43:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 69.163.218.105 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:161625 Archived-At: >> `dispatcher' is a too technical term. A more user-friendly term would be >> `alternatives' like you can see on GNU/Linux in /etc/alternatives/ that >> can be customized with such commands: >> >> update-alternatives --config x-www-browser >> update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser > > IIUC, you're proposing that the macro be called "alternatives-define". I don't know whether `alternatives-define' or `define-alternatives', but something without "dispatch" in its name. > I don't understand in which context would "www-browser-alternatives" > or "browse-web-alternatives" be used. For which commands are these > options? www-browser and/or browse-web? If the command name is `browse-web' then the user option `browse-web-alternatives' could define alternatives for this command. This is like what the command `browse-url' already provides where you can customize `browse-url-browser-function'. But it seems that there is a need for two separate commands `browse-url' and `browse-web' where `browse-url' is used to visit a link from the buffer in a preferably external browser, and `browse-web' to start browsing the Web in a native Emacs browser.