Use set-url or set-url-from-current-url by default?

[Ambrevar]

See #949 for a discussion.

[aadcg]

I think set-url-from-current-url makes more sense by default, since that's how most popular browers behave. This is the current behaviour, so there's nothing to do here. Feel free to close this issue, if you have nothing more to add.

[Ambrevar]

In a regular browser, pressding C-l selects the URL from the bar and the next editing key replaces the URL.
We don't support this behaviour at the moment.

To add such support, we would need more advanced text editing features such as text highlighting.

[jmercouris]

I agree with both of you. I think that set-url-from-current-url is what users expect, however, we should have the mark on the whole text body so that the user can replace it with a single key.

[jmercouris]

So, my personal conclusion: set-url-from-current-url as default, WHEN we have the ability to highlight text.

[aadcg]

Is anyone working on text highlighting?

[Ambrevar]

I'm working on a minibuffer overhaul which may include this feature. See #777. But this overlaps with the text editor.

[aadcg]

Woow, lots of cool ideas and lots of work ahead.

If I can be of any help, let me know. I'm wondering if there's work I could do on #1027 that could help you.

[jmercouris]

This is now the new default :-)