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U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: <874obo8yao.fsf@jidanni.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:26:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:41502 Archived-At: 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