From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [sdl.web@gmail.com: 23.0.0; (thing-at-point 'url) returns invalid urls]
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:42:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr6ljlqgc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <r1r6lkyuhu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Fri\, 31 Aug 2007 04\:32\:29 -0400")
>> Would someone please DTRT and ack?
> There's no problem here and nothing to do. The URLs returned are
> perfectly valid. See the discussion that followed the original email.
Maybe the docstring (and or behavior) should be adjusted to make the
distinction clear between "assuming there's a URL at point, return it" and
"check if there's a URL at point, and if there is, return it".
This is often a somewhat subtle but important difference. When the user
does M-x browse-url RET, it makes perfect sense to place as default in the
minibuffer the best URL we could come up with, even if it doesn't look very
likely to a good one.
OTOH if we create a command which can do two different thing depending on
whether there's a URL at point, we would want to be much more stringent on
what we consider as an acceptable "URL at point".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 7:15 [sdl.web@gmail.com: 23.0.0; (thing-at-point 'url) returns invalid urls] Richard Stallman
2007-08-31 8:32 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-31 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-08-31 16:18 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-31 20:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-31 20:34 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-31 21:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-08-31 23:57 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-01 19:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2007-09-01 19:59 ` Leo
2007-09-01 20:04 ` Johannes Weiner
2007-09-01 1:57 ` Leo
2007-09-01 16:39 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-01 20:57 ` Leo
2007-09-02 6:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-02 19:20 ` Glenn Morris
2007-09-04 22:37 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-03 20:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-04 22:40 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-01 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-01 21:00 ` (thing-at-point 'defun) always returns NIL (was: [sdl.web@gmail.com: 23.0.0; (thing-at-point 'url) returns invalid urls]) Leo
2007-09-01 21:41 ` (thing-at-point 'defun) always returns NIL (was:[sdl.web@gmail.com: " Drew Adams
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