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bug#38713: 27.0.50; eww doesn't handle protocols other than https?
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#38713: 27.0.50; eww doesn't handle protocols other than https? |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 01:12:15 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> 1. M-x eww RET about:protocols RET hangs with the following line:
>>
>> Loading http://about:protocols/...
>>
>> whereas after applying the following patch it displays the nicely
>> formatted HTML page:
>>
>> Supported Protocols - URL vEmacs
>> Protocol Properties Description
>> about Synchronous N/A
>> Default Port: 0
>> ...
>
> I'm not sure that makes much sense, really. Emacs has other ways of
> documenting these things other than putting them in an about:
> pseudo-protocol thing. (While other browsers do not.)
This is part of the planned bigger effort - browsers already support
the 'about' URI scheme, but Emacs is still lagging behind. I'd like
to expend lisp/url/url-about.el to give information on Emacs internals
including about:memory, about:buffers, about:processes, about:timers and
many more, using HTML instead of semi-obsolete Info or other ad-hoc formats.
Do you think this is worth the effort?