From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19662: 24.4: history bloat and navigation trouble Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:47:48 +1100 Message-ID: <87fvazvanf.fsf@building.gnus.org> References: <54C26E9F.5050908@gmx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422154155 8794 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2015 02:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19662@debbugs.gnu.org To: Boruch Baum Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 25 03:49:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YFDGA-0003pC-H8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 03:49:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36648 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFDG9-0006LK-Pk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34380) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFDG5-0006Ji-7F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:49:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFDG2-00041s-0X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:49:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36800) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFDG1-00041o-Tz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:49:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YFDG1-00018a-Ny for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:49:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:49:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19662 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19662-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19662.14221541054318 (code B ref 19662); Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:49:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19662) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Jan 2015 02:48:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55489 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YFDFR-00017Z-6t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:44034) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YFDFP-00017Q-9Z for 19662@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [27.96.197.126] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YFDF5-00019h-V0; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 03:48:04 +0100 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAMFBMVEVHicja5eT///7///9M jspNjbx0epFilcZimMyrq7YLDQ5BdrExPFpDh8dWlMlWltBDJEBgAAABWElEQVQ4jcXUL27DMBQG cIPSgSQo0C4azS4wENyRBVWKNGKpUunU3aBBm5JIld4FBnKFaheYCnqBsWGPFi17z//mJC0a2Kcq qb+fHYNYYTcXwv4bhBtk+uegjgF4nDb8OuKpSGshLOxWACBXIOVOSsBLYyESQkQi5hEXHP8KPrcg ARpck0I93DyLAHAX4OnDCIRLLILMWbYZ5MneE5btKW8fo7QaJrWFScsMBIXPFcKwnM3yPL9lzMGR yvw3LNFwHLYUDcdJbQAfbEe9Sf6pwU2/632UUgQ0fxHUff+tgXr11U9h2lu4zxdK+e5UVS+0iQZl AUsbA7iAnlUFeSYolYZTCNuNA1UNe4JiAlvzaotyBO6dF3oJHgM/24OVMI8GyhAUFsWy1aAXmXux 1Mdp39pzFeZA8XAI8t51HYIfd2EQurP5M7zKtZQriRnDei0PhARwNsnFL8MPu3QqLeJkL3kAAAAA SUVORK5CYII= X-Now-Playing: burn's _304 (Moon Base Big)_: "Wire!Red_Barked_Tree!01-Please_Take" In-Reply-To: <54C26E9F.5050908@gmx.com> (Boruch Baum's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:54:07 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1YFDF5-00019h-V0 MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1422758884.89412@jJnUbvDtsmA8gQKd3HdhFw X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:98687 Archived-At: Boruch Baum writes: > Whenever I use the 'r' or 'l' keys in eww-mode, to eww-forward-url or > eww-back-url in the history list, the size of the history increases. > This seems to me to be wrong. Also, this behaviour seems to make it > impossible (for me, at least) to traverse the entire history this way, > unless I do so in a straight sequence (eg. all eww-back-url without ever > using eww-forward-url). The eww history navigation is, er, original, but it's trying to solve the problem of "how do I get back to the page I saw just a few minutes ago". If you're on page A, then moves to B, then moves back to A, and then moves to C, then getting back to B in eww is , . Because that's the page you saw two pages ago. In Firefox, if you do the same, will get you to A, and then there's no more , and you can never visit B by either going back or forward. And it seems to me like your proposed change would have the same effect. If anybody has a better way of registering the history (that still wouldn't "forget" B, like Firefox does), I'm all ears. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/