GNU bug report logs - #60213
[PATCH] Copy Info-goto-node-web URL as kill with prefix argument

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Message #8 received at 60213 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 60213 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60213: [PATCH] Copy Info-goto-node-web URL as kill with prefix
 argument
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:04:56 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 22:44:33 -0600
> 
> The attached patch make `Info-goto-node-web' copy the URL as kill with a
> prefix argument, instead of opening it with `browse-url'.  I've seen
> this feature requested a couple of times now by various people.
> 
> Since `Info-goto-node-web' is new in Emacs 29, this could perhaps be
> considered safe enough for emacs-29, but master is also fine, of course.

I prefer master.  We aren't even sure how popular the new command will
be, and this addition modifies its behavior in very non-trivial ways.
I'm not aware of many command in Emacs that, given an argument, just
copy a name to the kill-ring instead of acting on that name.

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