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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: raman@google.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: EWW/URL: Avoid putting HTML download buffers into global-mark-ring?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:11:49 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfe75755-c76a-449f-af78-f4cbeacd011f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22729.30160.819443.760810@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com>

>  > > Looks like the  HTML  buffers  that get created by the URL package end
>  > > up participating in the global-mark-ring --- would it be possible to
>  > > avoid that?
>  >
>  > Do you mean optionally, by a user?  Mandatory?  If optional, do you
>  > mean that the default should be non-participation?
>  >
>  > Why?  Shouldn't a user be able to mark a position in such buffers
>  > and navigate to it?
>
> Why would the user want to navigate the source html buffer of cnn.com?

Why wouldn't s?he?  Why shouldn't s?he _be able to_?

But I don't really know what you mean by "the HTML buffers that get
created by the URL package".  A user might well want to navigate
HTML buffers in general.  Why not those HTML buffers?



      reply	other threads:[~2017-03-15 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-15 15:22 EWW/URL: Avoid putting HTML download buffers into global-mark-ring? raman
2017-03-15 15:28 ` Drew Adams
2017-03-15 17:11   ` T.V Raman
2017-03-15 23:11     ` Drew Adams [this message]

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