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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me>, 50497@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path.
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 22:01:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmtfx7fs.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czpfnw4j.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 11 Sep 2021 14:18:36 +0200")

>> Actually, the same 99.7% of all web pages doesn't provide special
>> attributes "next"/"previous"/"up" used by 'n'/'p'/'u' eww commands.
>
> That's also true, so I was sceptical about adding that (because it also
> makes `C-s' etc behave sub-optimally in 99.7% of web pages), so I've
> been pondering whether to remove it (or at least hide it behind and
> option defaulting to "off").

But users like it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/9oi1e3/ewws_awesome_isearch_support_just_blew_my_mind/

And if it behaves sub-optimally, it could be fixed by just creating
a new bug report :-)

> But at least it has one thing going for it -- it's a standard mechanism,
> not using guesswork.
>
>> So using URL regexp matching as a fallback for other 99.7% of web pages
>> that don't have numbers in URL will support (100% - 99.7%) * 2 pages.
>
> It's true, but it'll also make `C-s' (at the end of an eww buffer) guess
> at what's the next buffer, load it, and search through that instead.
> Which is just kinda problematic, since an URL with a number in it isn't
> necessarily related to the URL with the next number in it.
>
> We'd be displaying web pages to the user that the user hasn't asked for,
> and that the person who wrote the web site didn't intend for the user to
> navigate in that way.

I agree, then such fuzzy guesswork should be optional.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-11 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-10  3:05 bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path Yuchen Pei
2021-09-10  6:43 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-10  6:57   ` Yuchen Pei
2021-09-10 11:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-10 12:50   ` Yuchen Pei
2021-09-11 12:22     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-06  0:29       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-10 16:10   ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-11 12:18     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-11 19:01       ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-09-13  8:03         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-13  8:25           ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-13 17:51           ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-14 11:04             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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