From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] browse-url-mailto Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:48:09 +0800 Message-ID: <8739b0o846.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8739bnyw20.fsf@lavabit.com> <87mx9955th.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327718918 6201 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2012 02:48:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Elias Pipping , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bugs@gnus.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 28 03:48:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RqyLB-0001bG-KA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:48:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40433 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqyLA-0002ie-UD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:48:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqyL4-0002iZ-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:48:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqyKy-0003NB-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:49171) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqyKy-0003N6-Dg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:48:20 -0500 Original-Received: from bb121-7-229-168.singnet.com.sg ([121.7.229.168]:38583 helo=furball) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqyKw-0003Ng-7q; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:48:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87mx9955th.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:00:26 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:147989 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen 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.