From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#7369: 24.0.50; browse-url prompts should say what browser the will use
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:30:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ibiqds$sr5$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874obo8yao.fsf@jidanni.org>
On 11/10/10 6:05 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Commands like
> (defun browse-url-firefox (url&optional new-window)
> "Ask the Firefox WWW browser to load URL.
> Default to the URL around or before point. The strings in
> variable `browse-url-firefox-arguments' are also passed to
> Firefox.
>
> Should (optionally, enabled by default) put in their prompt,
> (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
> some indication of which program they are about to call.
>
> E.g., instead of URL, say "Call firefox on:" or "Firefox:" or
> "URL for Firefox:".
>
> Why? Because otherwise it looks just like the w3m-view-this-url etc.
> default prompts, even if one knows which function he is calling.
>
> (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20101030-1)
Feh. You can easily customize the prompt if you want, without adding a
paint shelf to Emacs for your bike shed:
(defadvice browse-url-firefox (before interactive-url-prompt activate)
(interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "Firefox URL: ")))
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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2010-11-11 1:05 bug#7369: 24.0.50; browse-url prompts should say what browser the will use jidanni
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