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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: bugs@gnus.org
Cc: Elias Pipping <pipping@lavabit.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] browse-url-mailto
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:48:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739b0o846.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mx9955th.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:00:26 +0100")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> (*) The naming is quite confusing: The variable
>> browse-url-mailto-function generalises the function
>> browse-url-mail. Maybe one of the two should be renamed.
>
> Yeah, that's a less than optimal naming.  Emacs-devel people -- would it
> make sense to change `browse-url-mailto-function' to
> `browse-url-mail-function'?  The variable was introduced (by, ahem, me)
> about a year ago, so it's within the pretest period...

The variable browse-url-mailto-function is used to respond to mailto:
urls.  Its value happens to be browse-url-mail, but I don't think it is
quite correct to say that this variable "generalises" browse-url-mail.

I think the present naming is fine.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-28  2:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8739bnyw20.fsf@lavabit.com>
2012-01-27 19:00 ` [PATCH] browse-url-mailto Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-28  2:48   ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-01-28 19:05     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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