From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eww Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:29:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874n56jqts.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389788997 22279 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2014 12:29:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:29:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 15 13:30:05 2014 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 1W3Pbg-000464-Lh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:30:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Pbf-0001Li-U0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56937) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Pbc-0001LT-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Pbb-0006xU-FT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Pbb-0006xQ-Bp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3PbR-0007JS-HK; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:29:49 -0500 In-reply-to: <874n56jqts.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (message from Bastien on Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:39:27 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:168452 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Your proposal seems good to me, but maybe it could be simplified. I am not sure we need the complexity of choosing a text browser and separately a graphical browser. Most new users only use Emacs in graphical mode and will want only a graphical browser. So I suggest this: browse-url-text uses the preferred text browser. The first time, it asks the user to choose the preferred text browser. browse-url-graphical uses the preferred graphical browser. The first time, it asks the user to choose the preferred graphical browser. browse-url on a text terminal runs browse-url-text. browse-url on a graphical terminal runs browse-url-graphical. This way, most users will only need to remember browse-url, and will only be asked once to choose a preferred browser. Any comments? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.