Re: Rename `eww' to `web'

[Dmitry Gutov]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Making things easy for users must take priority.  We cannot regard a
> name as somehow "occupied" by code that we don't somehow distribute or
> recommend.

I think this approach is offensive to the community. The Emacs ecosystem
is not limited to code that GNU distributes. You better have a good
reason to take over the name of an established package.

> Even if we did somehow distribute or recommend that code, we might
> still want to use that name for something else.  Making Emacs
> good for users is they point.

Making third-party developers unhappy is not a very good way to make
users happy.

That said, I don't feel that `web' is a particularly good name for a
browser package. It's too generic and bland - if I was looking for such
package, I probably would search for `browser' or `internet', not `web'.

And making `browse-url' default to `eww-browse-url' doesn't require
changing the name of the latter.