From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 5aa6a15: Treat the "Link" link in gnus-summary-browse-urls specially
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:01:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1muh3h15l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87o91jzj7t.fsf@mouse.gnus.org
> * Lars Ingebrigtsen <ynefv@tahf.bet> [2019-07-24 14:54:14 +0200]:
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Could we put this back the way it was? I don't know why "Link" as link
>> text should be treated specially -- now if any of the urls are called
>> "Link" I have to delete the text. At least make it the default argument
>> to `completing-read', not the inital input. But I don't see why this
>> text is treated specially.
>
> As a DWIM thing, it may make sense? But, yes, it shouldn't be the
> initial input. As a default it's nice, though. But then perhaps it
> should say (in the prompt) what the default is, which will make the
> default very long...
Precisely why I chose to use it as the initial input instead - because
if you do not like it, "C-a C-k" is fast enough.
> Other usability nits in that function: It uses widget-move, which will
> echo the contents, which is very annoying, because that means that it
> flashes a large number of things in the echo area.
That I will fix, thanks.
> And the prefix argument to `w' should probably be to act the same as in
> eww; i.e., use `shr-external-browser' for the browser.
Alas, the prefix argument is already used there ("also collect links
from message headers"), and it was so before my change, I will leave it
to you to change (personally, I never use eww).
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2019-07-24 3:14 ` master 5aa6a15: Treat the "Link" link in gnus-summary-browse-urls specially Eric Abrahamsen
2019-07-24 12:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-24 16:01 ` Sam Steingold [this message]
2019-07-24 15:56 ` Sam Steingold
2019-07-24 17:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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