Doc: eww-prompt-history

Doc: eww-prompt-history

[T.V Raman]

The variable eww-prompt-history appears to track urls even if
url-history-track is set to nil, which is jarring.

Also, that var --- eww-prompt-history --- could do with some
documentation and tips on how to decide what urls end up in that list.

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮

--

Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮

Re: Doc: eww-prompt-history

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:42:21 -0700
> 
> The variable eww-prompt-history appears to track urls even if
> url-history-track is set to nil, which is jarring.

That variable is for the URL package, and controls the URL history
saved on a file:

  url-history-track is a variable defined in ‘url-history.el’.

  Its value is nil

  Controls whether to keep a list of all the URLs being visited.
  If non-nil, the URL package will keep track of all the URLs visited.
  If set to t, then the list is saved to disk at the end of each Emacs
  session.

We could make that variable affect EWW as well, but please file a
feature request bug report for that, so that we could discuss possible
implementations and user-facing aspects of that.

> Also, that var --- eww-prompt-history --- could do with some
> documentation and tips on how to decide what urls end up in that list.

That is not a user-level variable.  The user option which controls
this is eww-suggest-uris.