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Re: Rename `eww' to `web'
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Rename `eww' to `web' |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:09:23 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:29:34 +0900 Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
MB> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
RS> Web browsing may be important enough to justify a toolbar icon.
RS> But the command name should be natural too. Ideally a command
RS> should have the name you would guess it has (if you didn't know).
>>
>> If the goal is to improve usability, forget command names.
MB> Er, what? This is Emacs. M-x is important, and lots of people use it.
There are different ways to use Emacs or indeed any bundle of methods
and information. You can zoom in on a specific thing, which `M-x
command' does, or you can explore a visual hierarchy, like the menus or
a tree of packages and options, or you can search (with partial command
completion or the manual's index or other means).
But all of the above imply there's a tool intervening between you and
the URL, and you're trying to discover the tool's name (the command name
in Emacs). Most users just want to enter a URL and browse it. So my
main suggestion is to make `C-x C-f' on a URL open a web browser like
`eww', or call `browse-url', or do something like that.
MB> This is especially true for something like this browser, which I
MB> expect people will only use occasionally (most people will have a
MB> standard web browser available most of the time)
MB> A defalias is trivial and works well anyway, so there's no reason
MB> _not_ to have it...
I didn't imply otherwise :) I just don't think `defalias' will enhance
usability.
Ted
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/01
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Miles Bader, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web',
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Glenn Morris, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Tim Cross, 2013/07/03
- RE: Rename `eww' to `web', Drew Adams, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', chad, 2013/07/03
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/07/04
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/04
- Re: Rename `eww' to `web', Richard Stallman, 2013/07/04
- RE: Rename `eww' to `web', Drew Adams, 2013/07/03