From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: 69232@debbugs.gnu.org, jimjoe@gmx.net
Subject: bug#69232: 30.0.50; [PATCH] EWW history navigation gets caught in a loop
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 21:49:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bk84wci4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f0da1b2-e256-6124-4d6a-47c922ccd64f@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:40:39 -0800)
> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:40:39 -0800
> Cc: 69232@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>
> On 2/24/2024 9:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
> >> Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com, 69232@debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 04:04:13 +0530
> >>
> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>
> >>> The only reasonable alternative is to throw away all the history after
> >>> 'l', which I don't think is better.
> >>>
> >>> What do other browsers do in this situation?
> >>
> >> Exactly that. Firefox, Chrome etc. for e.g.
> >
> > So maybe we should offer that as optional behavior?
>
> If anything, I think this should be the default, with some other options
> provided for people who don't want to lose any history. That way the
> default behavior is what people know.
I don't think I mind.
> How about this as an option for preserving history though: if you're at
> a historical page and you navigate to a link, open that link in a *new*
> buffer, copying over the history leading up to that link. That way, you
> have two separate history timelines and nothing ever gets lost or munged.
Sounds too complicated, and two backward-incompatible changes instead
of just one. My recommendation is not to over-engineer this.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-18 4:59 bug#69232: 30.0.50; [PATCH] EWW history navigation gets caught in a loop Jim Porter
2024-02-19 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-19 18:55 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-19 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-22 13:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-22 17:18 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-22 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-22 20:10 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-22 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-24 14:15 ` James Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-24 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-24 22:29 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-25 0:50 ` James Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-24 22:34 ` James Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-25 5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-25 19:40 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-25 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-25 22:41 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-28 23:39 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-29 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-29 17:32 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-29 23:30 ` James Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-01 1:00 ` Jim Porter
2024-03-01 2:10 ` Jim Porter
2024-03-01 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-01 20:13 ` Jim Porter
2024-03-02 7:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-07 0:26 ` Jim Porter
2024-03-01 8:50 ` James Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-01 11:56 ` James Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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