From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rename `eww' to `web' Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:09:05 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <8738s087wj.fsf@gmail.com> <87bo6mjv4s.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871u7gavwx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87obaj39sc.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372903765 12422 80.91.229.3 (4 Jul 2013 02:09:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 02:09:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 04 04:09:27 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 1UuYz9-0000yp-2e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:09:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53017 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYz8-0003eV-In for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:09:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYz6-0003eQ-4U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYz5-0000AT-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-hampton.hostforweb.net ([216.246.15.223]:49231 helo=hampton.hostforweb.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYz4-0008QW-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:09:22 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:49472 helo=localhost) by hampton.hostforweb.net with smtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1UuYyp-003uQf-Pt; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:09:08 -0500 X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`; Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu; B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCPz8bKEI=?= Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (i686-pc-cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2DPOnL9AYCrrRhKQUA9UxclUuGE= X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - hampton.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: hampton.hostforweb.net: acl_c_authenticated_local_user: root X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (barebone) [generic] X-Received-From: 216.246.15.223 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:161503 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Most users just want to enter a URL and browse it. So my > main suggestion is to make `C-x C-f' on a URL open a web browser like > `eww', or call `browse-url', or do something like that. > This would be a convenient interface. We just have to solve the > problem of ambiguity: a file name can look like a URL. We could make > some way to indicate it is a file name -- perhaps some way to quote > the colon that would follow the URL type. This is off-topic, sorry. I'm using a wrapper[1] that modifies `C-x C-f' and `C-x d' so as to work for ftp://. I can imagine making those commands work for https?:// is not so troublesome. Note that a url containing non-ASCII characters needs to be encoded properly. [1] http://www.jpl.org/ftp/pub/elisp/dired-utils.el.gz