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bug#20426: browse-url-XYZ should mention the XYZ browser in the prompt


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#20426: browse-url-XYZ should mention the XYZ browser in the prompt
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 19:20:01 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> X-Debbugs-Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
>
> Functions like
>
>    (defun browse-url-chromium (url &optional _new-window)
>      "Ask the Chromium WWW browser to load URL.
>    Default to the URL around or before point.  The strings in
>    variable `browse-url-chromium-arguments' are also passed to
>    Chromium."
>      (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
>
> should each prompt differently, instead of just the hardwired "URL: ",
> else the user can't be sure he really called the right function.

I started doing this ("Browse URL with Chromium: ") etc, but it's nice
to have a short prompt here, because URLs can be long, and it's nice if
they don't overflow.

So I think this probably shouldn't be done.

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