Re: [PATCH] browse-url-mailto

[Chong Yidong]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

>> (*) The naming is quite confusing: The variable
>> browse-url-mailto-function generalises the function
>> browse-url-mail. Maybe one of the two should be renamed.
>
> Yeah, that's a less than optimal naming.  Emacs-devel people -- would it
> make sense to change `browse-url-mailto-function' to
> `browse-url-mail-function'?  The variable was introduced (by, ahem, me)
> about a year ago, so it's within the pretest period...

The variable browse-url-mailto-function is used to respond to mailto:
urls.  Its value happens to be browse-url-mail, but I don't think it is
quite correct to say that this variable "generalises" browse-url-mail.

I think the present naming is fine.