From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: shorten-url Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:00:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="42055"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Rybkin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 03 04:00:48 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h0HMu-000An4-7J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2019 04:00:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33464 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0HMt-0007Vw-2v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:00:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0HMT-0007Ij-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:00:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0HMS-0002OT-O1; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:00:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h0HMR-0002uZ-0u; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:00:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Nicolas Rybkin on Sat, 2 Mar 2019 14:52:58 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:233787 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. ]]] > > Is the shortened URL expanded locally inside Emacs? > > Does it refer to a real website? > Of course it refers to a real website, the idea is that you can use > shortened URL in chat so the people you're chatting with could use it too. > "what made that choice desirable?" it's working and it suits me well :/ > shorten-url-base is customizable. Now it is starting to make sense, but it presumes that the shortened URL is defined on a web server, not just in Emacs. Does your package set up the definition too? That wasn't clear to me when I read the first message. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)