GNU bug report logs - #58049
29.0.50; Obsolete url schemes "info" and "man"

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, 58049 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58049: 29.0.50; Obsolete url schemes "info" and "man"
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 16:30:19 +0200

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I can imagine many uses for this.  For instance, a completion table
> could provide some kind of "further info" property so you can preview
> the documentation of an item mid-completion.

Why on Earth would you use URL syntax for something like that?  Just add
the "further info" property and link that up with a closure from a text
property or whatever

I'm all for retiring the info: and man: schemes (since they are 100%
useless), but don't really see the need to do so piecemeal -- when Emacs
grows a new URL library that functions better than the current one,
it'll only support http(s) and file, so all this junk will disappear in
one fell swoop.

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