Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> The name `with-url' suggests that Emacs has some sort of "current URL",
> and that this macro temporarily specifies some particular URL as current.
>
> That's not the case, is it?  So the name `with-url' doesn't fit
> what it does.  (What does it do?)

It's like `with-temp-buffer' and it's cousins: It generates a new
buffer, executes the body in that buffer, and kills the buffer when the
form finishes.

The contents of the buffer come from the specified URL, of course.  See
the recent discussion of with-url on emacs-devel.

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