From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 56885@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Subject: bug#56885: Fix url-about.el in EWW or make it obsolete
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:06:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmhg8jjt.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8r8if1r.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:33:20 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> `url-proxy-services' is a normal defcustom, so you can view it via `C-h
> v' or Customize, like any other variable.
It's certainly not as pleasant to view that way as in the neatly
formatted about:protocols page.
> Having about:foo in url.el is cute, but it emulates browsers that had
> no other way to specify stuff like this. Emacs is much more powerful
> than that.
But why is such "power" a reason to remove the about:protocols URL? What
harm is being done by keeping it there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-04 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-02 12:17 bug#56885: Fix url-about.el in EWW or make it obsolete Stefan Kangas
2022-08-02 12:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-04 7:53 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-04 8:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-04 8:29 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-04 8:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-04 9:06 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-08-04 9:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-04 10:23 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-04 14:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-05 0:54 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-05 11:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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