Re: eww and bookmarks

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Some specifics:
>
> 1. Bookmark record uses web-page title as default name
>    of bookmark.
>
> 2. Jumping to bookmark can use a new buffer, per option.
>    nil (default): reuse an existing buffer for that URL.
>    non-nil: use a new buffer.
>
> 3. Name of EWW buffer can optionally change when you
>    jump to bookmark.  Buffer name is per user option: nil
>    (default): don't rename.  `url': rename to web-page
>    title plus last 20 chars of URL (e.g. anchor).
>   `page': rename to web-page title (only).
>
> 4. Minor mode for automatic bookmark creation/updating.
>    Option to choose whether to only updating existing
>    bookmarks or also create new bookmarks.  (Updating
>    increases the recorded number of visits and the last
>    visit date+time.)

What do you others think?  Do you want to see some of those features in
Emacs (apart from 1, which I think is not controversial and definitely
"must have")?

> > Emacs bookmarks don't just refer to a particular "page" but also
> > remember the place within that page (by remembering surrounding text)
> > and I think this part can only work if we go back with EWW.
>
> Yes.

I think for w3m it could work as well, no?

But here we have a difference to eww bookmarks: AFAIK they don't save a
position along with the url.

Michael.