From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eww Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:05:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389722497 1314 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2014 18:01:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 14 19:01:45 2014 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 1W38J6-0006KB-Hc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:01:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W38J6-0008VE-3k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:01:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W37R7-0004ax-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:06:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W37R5-0007xN-V1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:05:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58740) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W37R5-0007xJ-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:05:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W37R4-0002I4-Lc; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:05:54 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:05:49 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:168373 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] `browse-web' is the alias for `eww'. That's a good, natural name. However, the Emacs manual mentions `eww', not `browse-web'. I think that is a bug and needs to be fixed. The manual section on EWW says that itcan be one of the browsers used by `browse-url'. In effect, `browse-url' is an instance of the sort of feature that `define-alternative' defines. Perhaps we should set it up to ask the user, as if it were defined with `define-alternative'. Perhaps `eww' should be the default. (Should it be the default?) Perhaps the manual should document only `browse-url', not the internals of the various alternatives. I am not sure what is best, since I don't use those features. But I am sure we should get the user interface maximally simplified before the release. What do people think is best? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.