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Re: Rename `eww' to `web'


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Rename `eww' to `web'
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:30:22 -0400

        [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
        [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
        [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.

    I gnu ewe might say that.
    But I nominate ewe.
    Web is pedestrian - not so gnu.
    There is none gnuer than ewe.

This is a serious issue of usability.

There is nothing particularly wrong with "ewe" in a command name,
but it's not a very natural name for a command to browse the web.
Few users, when straining to remember or trying to guess the way
to browse the web in Emacs, will hit on M-x ewe.  If it is
M-x web, they will find it easy to remember and to guess.

We already have M-x browse-url.  If eww is a suitable replacement for
that feature perhaps we should make M-x browse-url run eww.

Or maybe both.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.




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