From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: 58049@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58049: 29.0.50; Obsolete url schemes "info" and "man"
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 14:52:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YzBA+949jAyton4V@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=j0Nqd7svdTuuOK1Wjy0O6Oas076SSyrnRoXgLLGQsMQ@mail.gmail.com>
* Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> [2022-09-25 02:07]:
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I don't think non-standard URLs like these are used much, and they're
> probably not very useful. They're more likely to cause confusion.
>
> (url-retrieve-synchronously "info:url#Retrieving URLs")
> (url-retrieve-synchronously "man:cat")
>
> I suggest support for such URLs is obsoleted, and that they are removed
> from (info "(url) Supported URL Types").
Please don't. There are many different URLs and you can't know how
users have implemented it. Yes, I agree they are less known, less
used, nevertheless it makes no sense to obsolete it.
Hyperlinking is major computing feature since Doug Engelbart, and the
fact that we have not implement it sufficiently does not mean it shall
be obsoleted.
--
Jean
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-25 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-24 23:05 bug#58049: 29.0.50; Obsolete url schemes "info" and "man" Stefan Kangas
2022-09-25 4:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-25 11:52 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-09-25 14:01 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-25 14:06 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-25 14:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-25 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-25 14:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-25 15:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-26 10:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-26 11:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-27 6:00 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-27 18:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-27 20:23 ` Jean Louis
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