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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 23:06:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: arstoffel <at> gmail.com, 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 16:46:01 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> You mean, no mailto:, no imap:, no irc:, no news:, no pop:, no rsync:,
> etc.?  Do we really want to drop support for all those schemes?

From the new URL library?  Definitely -- the current URL library
hand-waves at handling some of those, but doesn't really, so there's
not much to drop.

(But other parts of Emacs handle mailto: just fine, and that'll continue
to work.)
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