bug#34052: Acknowledgement (27.0.50; New command gnus-summary-press-button)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I think once I was using widget-forward to collect buttons, it seemed
> natural to be able to handle all the types of buttons, not just URLs.
> For instance, I'd like to be able to start composing messages to mailto:
> buttons.

Hm...  I think that sounds less useful, really.  In 99.9% of the cases,
you don't want to hit anything but the URLs, I think, and "polluting"
the list of URLs with mailto: stuff would make the feature more
cumbersome to use, in my opinion.

> Then the only reliable way to "do" what the button does was to
> press it. Later Eric Fraga posted a variant that checked if the URL was
> a http URL, and used `browse-url' directly in that case. The whole
> function could be a lot simpler if we only collected http links. Though
> I'd still like to compose messages to email addresses...

If we want to have a "collect mailto: addresses" thing, that could be a
separate command.

> I'm posting the most recent version of the function below. Another bad
> thing is does is tries to manage window state, returning the
> summary/article config to what it was before clicking links, and I think
> that should be removed -- it's fragile, and none of the other
> summary/article commands do that.

Yeah, good point.

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